Jubilee Campaign USA and Sinhala Buddhist Right and Anti-Conversion Bill at Sri Lanka
BY National Buddhist Authority,
There is a thousand religious organizations and international missionary organization that put pressure to our ambassadors are around the world special Jesuit group from US and Jubilee Campaign USA “promotes the their Christ religion throughout the human rights and saying its and religious liberty (been a Christian)they promote and financially support children’s right internationally.
So lets look which kind of organization and what the history of Jubilee campaign
(Srilankan say its and a campaign for god not for protect any ones religious rights)
Jubilee Campaign USA “promotes the human rights and religious liberty of ethnic and religious minorities in countries which imprison, terrorize or otherwise oppress them. We advocate the release of prisoners of conscience and the change of laws as necessary to effect these purposes. Jubilee also advocates against the exploitation of children, paying particular attention to the sex industry in Asia.
“Jubilee Campaign was founded by Danny Smith in London in the early 1980’s to serve as a nondenominational and nonsectarian human rights organization advocating nonviolent solutions to religious intolerance and religious discrimination internationally. In 1987 David Alton, Member of Parliament, launched Jubilee Campaign UK as a voice to the British Parliament and now over 150 Members of Parliament have adopted cases of religious persecution from around the world.
Founder and Owner, Just Law International, PC (VA)
USA Director for Jubilee Campaign USA
- J. D., Regent University School of Law, 1990
- Masters in Public Policy, Regent University School of Government, 1991
- Masters in International/Cross-Cultural Communication, Regent University School of Communications, 1991
- B. S., Liberty University, summa cum laude , Majoring in Business Administration and Political Science with two minors in Language and Linguistics and in International Affairs, 1986
An immigration attorney in Northern Virginia, founded the US branch of Jubilee Campaign in the early 1990s. Jubilee Campaign USA lobbies Congress on behalf of those suffering religious persecution and human rights violations. Furthermore, we actively travel overseas to promote religious tolerance, we handle certain cases involving religious asylum seekers and we promote and financially support children’s rights internationally.
Below letter describes how Ann Buwalda plays the roll against Buddhist right.
Srilanka and a Sinhala Buddhist country and after the aggressive conversion act of protégées the first cross appear in srilanka. Is there ann. has an any international right to supporting to the peoples (pastors and priests)who trying to demise Buddhism by going against our Anti-conversion bill, does she know how many women killed by holocaust and how many children are burn live regards convert to the baptism.
Anti-Conversion Bill in Sri Lanka
http://solofemininity.blogs.com/posts/2009/01/anticonversion-bill-in-sri-lanka.html
For a number of years, politicians in Sri Lanka have tried to pass an anti-conversion bill in the predominantly Buddhist nation. According to theJubilee Campaign, a group which works internationally in the area of religious freedom, the latest version of this bill was presented, cloaked in secrecy, for a second reading to the Sri Lankan Parliament. It is expected to go up for a third reading in February and is likely to be passed. The anti-conversion bill would have serious consequences for Christians in Sri Lanka.
The Associated Baptist Press reports this bill was first introduced in 2004 by Sri Lanka’s Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) Party — a political party headed by Buddhist monks. The bill would outlaw religious conversions carried out by “force,” “allurement” or other unethical means like taking advantage of a person’s “inexperience, trust, need, low intellect, naivety or state of distress.” The article continues:
Depending on how it’s interpreted or enforced, faith-based humanitarian groups fear the law could be used to crack down on all evangelism and encourage violence against evangelical Christians.
JHU, roughly translated in English as National Heritage Party, has sought an anti-conversion bill since 2002. The pending bill, which has government support, has been held up in a committee since 2006 due to constitutional problems.
Fundamentalist Buddhists have long pressured the government to address the “problem” of the growth of Christian churches in rural areas. They accuse Christian organizations of using aid to entice or coerce vulnerable people to change their religion and claim that such conversions jeopardize the nation’s Buddhist identity.
JHU leader Omalpe Sobhitha Thero has been quoted as saying the two greatest threats facing Sri Lanka are the Tamil Tigers — a militant secessionist group branded a terrorist organization by 31 countries, including the United States — and U.S.-funded Christian missionaries.
Anti-missionary sentiment intensified following the 2004 tsunami, which brought an influx of foreign Christian aid workers, some set on proselytizing.
Sri Lanka’s Constitution accords Buddhism a “foremost place” but does not formally recognize it as a state religion. Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court, however, has endorsed discrimination against non-Buddhist organizations and stated the growth of Christianity threatens not only the primacy of Buddhism, but its very existence.
The constitution gives members of other faiths a right to freely practice their religion, but the U.S. State Department has raised concerns about sporadic attacks on Christian communities. Some groups allege that the government has tacitly condoned harassment and attacks against Christians by inadequately enforcing the law.
Sri Lanka’s population of 19 million is 70 percent Buddhist, 15 percent Hindu, 8 percent Muslim and about 7 percent Christian.
According to the Jubilee Campaign, the most effective way to protest is to pray that the Lord would intervene at this time and then to contact the Sri Lankan embassy. The contact information for the Sri Lankan Embassy in the United States is:
His Excellency Jaliya Wickramasuriya
Ambassador of Sri Lanka
2148 Wyoming Avenue NW
Washington DC 20008
Tel: (202)-483-4025
Fax: (202)-232-7181
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]
Please make a phone call, send a fax, or send an email protesting this bill. Raising awareness with any contacts at the government level would be helpful, as well. A sample of a letter to the Sri Lankan Ambassador can be found below.
His Excellency Jaliya Wickramasuriya
Ambassador of Sri Lanka
2148 Wyoming Avenue NW
Washington DC 20008
Dear Ambassador Wickramasuriya,
I have received word that an anti-conversion bill has been presented twice now to the Sri Lankan Parliament as of January 7 and will likely pass in February when it goes up for its third reading. The passage of an anti-conversion bill has serious implications for religious minorities and for the freedom of religious expression and choice for all people of Sri Lanka and must be stopped.
If vulnerable and poor people are forced to convert in order to receive certain resources or aid from religious groups, this is not to be taken lightly and merits investigation based on unethical behavior. However, passing a law that would ultimately deny the right for a person to choose to convert is morally and legally unacceptable because of the negative effects it will have on many upstanding citizens of Sri Lanka and in contravention of universally accepted religious freedom standards.
The people of Sri Lanka should have the freedom to convert without fear of police intervention, discrimination or oppression. The draft bill which proposes to summarily try anyone accused of attempting to cause forcible conversion is vaguely written and will stifle acts of charitable kindness. Proposed punishments of imprisonment for a term up to five years and fines up to Rs. 150,000 are harsh and draconian. These punishments could be very easily manipulated to promote the demise of religious minorities.
Please take a stand with your government today and ask Parliament not to pass this bill. A timely response is necessary. We have seen these anti-conversion laws used against religious minorities in many countries, including India, Pakistan, Iran, and Sudan, to justify killings, torture, and persecution. Please work diligently to promote religious freedom for your people and use the law to promote the tolerance of all beliefs.
Sincerely,
Ann Buwalda
Executive Director, Jubilee Campaign USA
UPDATE: The comments function is now closed we are Balawegaya trying to contact her but she has closed comment her blog:
The Jubilee Campaign or Ann Buwalda doesn’t have a single right to voice against Sinhala Buddhists right and she should know that missionary works throughout the various missionary organized systemically will harm the right of whom never believe god and whoever believes Buddha’s way is only way for achieve Nirvana.
some of works at other country
Prayers for Pakistan
A few days ago, I received notice that a friend in Pakistan has received death threats from militants because he has been speaking up for the rights of persecuted people, especially Christians, in Pakistan. I first met Joseph Francis in 2008, when I filmed his visit to Washington, DC, to make appeals on behalf of Pakistani minorities to the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. He is an attorney and the national director for CLAAS (the Center for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement) in Lahore, Pakistan.
According to a report from Ann Buwalda, Director, Jubilee Campaign has conducted a sponsorship program for a number of years to provide housing, food, education and spiritual and emotional nurture to the orphans. In an e-mail to ASSIST News Service (ANS), Buwalda offered her reflections on the history of the place and her hopes for the future of the residents of Caleb House and the Christian village of Waii.
Buwalda said the attacks by members of Laska Jihad on the village lasted from January 23, 1999, through August 2001 in the village of Waii, Indonesia.
what About the Right of Majority ? NOT only Minority has problems?we are Buddhist never attack on some one religious way like few of Muslim groups are doing…
few of pastors from minority group always wanna defeat and demise the Buddhism at Srilanka INGO Support Religious crime at Srilanka. Internation Buddhist shoud act accordingly agnist this planned worked of INGO, They serve god But we are Buddhist save Humanity ….
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