Global Hindu Footprint - Spread Beyond India

[Bharatvarsh]

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By Swami Veda Bharati

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An extract from the article (my comments in blue in the brackets):
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Mahounon explained that the first place the Catholic missionaries landed in the whole of West-Africa was here, in Ouidah. When they first arrived, the missionaries and the priests at that time got along very well. The local priests even helped the Catholic priests build their first church, and they would take part in each other’s ceremonies. But in time the Catholics started to sabotage and relations deteriorated.  <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> [hmm doesn't this bear an uncanny similarity to what was done by syrian xtians in kerala] Nowadays some people go to church in the morning and secretly come to Mahou’s temple in the evening, but whenever they have problems, they come to Mahou’s temple. Even some Catholic priests secretly keep coming. The Christian missionaries cannot succeed in converting the people here, because, Mahounon said, everybody here knew that Mahou is the supreme God.

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