Guyana’s Hindu community has called for the country’s schools to be declared off-limits to all missionaries and their preaching and it said the constitution was violated by the recent proselytizing of a controversial American group.
The Hindu community criticized the government for facilitating through the Ministry of Education visits to public schools by members of the Faithful Word Baptist Church, which has been designated a hate group abroad.
In a full page ad placed in yesterday’s edition of the Stabroek News, 14 Hindu organisations representing 108 temples expressed “grave concern” over access given to the leader of the church, Pastor Steven Anderson to preach and proselytize so