On the 3rd of February 2025, Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump decided to bring about a tectonic shift in world politics. In a Spaces session, Elon Musk said that he had a detailed discussion with Trump and they had decided to shut down USAID – the regime change arm of the US government that managed over $40 billion dollars in aid money to various nations across the world. Musk said the agency was ‘beyond repair’, calling it a criminal enterprise.
What followed was pandemonium – the Left was up in arms. At the same time, those with a functioning brain were deep diving into the shenanigans of USAID, the problematic programs they funded, the deep state operators and how, the agency had unleashed mayhem in several nations across the world.
India is no different. USAID and the US deep state took a special interest in India. From funding media entities to undermining any platform that did not agree with the radical left to funding religious conversions in India – USAID footprints seem to be everywhere.
OpIndia published an investigation into one such entity – World Vision International – one of the top recipients of USAID funds – to the tune of over $2 billion. World Vision India, in turn, received hundreds of crores every single year from the USAID-funded entity. While it pretends to be a humanitarian organisation, in reality, it is a Christian fundamentalist organisation that allies with other Christian fundamentalists, to convert unsuspecting Hindus, especially children and women. World Vision has been indulging in conversion activity in India for many years. It was first established in India in 1951. For over 70 years, World Vision received crores to convert Hindus and subvert Hinduism. It was only in 2024 that the Modi government revoked its FCRA license, denting its conversion activity in India.
A detailed deep dive into the organisation and its activity in India can be read here.
One does not have to look too far to realise that USAID-funded World Vision has been exploiting children to affect Christian conversion under the garb of humanitarian work for decades.
This 2002 IRS return filed by World Vision, for example, very plainly admits that World Vision is a Christian Ministry and its objective is to spread Christianity overseas. It also admits that its funded by USAID.
This means, therefore, that World Vision and USAID have been funding the Christian conversion of Hindus, using “aid” to their children, for decades.
World Vision has been functioning in India since 1951 and subsequently, set up an office for itself in Kolkata in 1958. But how did it all start? Who founded World Vision? What did they want to achieve in India? Who facilitated their entry into India? This article, part 2 of the series, will explore how it was Jawaharlal Nehru who met with the founders of World Vision, along with other Christian missionaries, and paved the path for thousands of Hindus to be converted with the aid of the US deep state.
USAID funded World Vision history: How it started with the conversion and brainwashing of a little girl in China
World Vision on its website says this about the organisation’s founding:
Bob Pierce founded World Vision three years after he came face to face with an abandoned child and chose not to look away. Determined the last $5 in his pocket wasn’t enough, he knew more people had to be involved for a long-term solution and broader impact. Initially based in the state of Oregon, the organisation focused on mission service for emergencies in East Asia. Today World Vision has become the largest Christian international non-governmental organisation working in nearly 100 countries worldwide.
The World Vision India website also puts out the ‘humanitarian’ version of its original story instead of revealing details. The website claims that Bob Pierce gave his last $5 to take care of a child in China who was abandoned by her parents, however, leaves out critical information about why that child was abandoned.
The explanation by World Vision makes it appear as though Bob Pierce, the founder of WVI and one of the foremost evangelists, simply wanted to help impoverished children and therefore, spent the last money in his pocket for the upliftment of the poor. However, this is not the full story. It is a sanitised version of the truth to further the humanitarian smokescreen.
In a book titled “Religion in Philanthropic Organisations” edited by Thomas J. Davis, the Dean and Professor of Religious Studies at the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts, the actual story is revealed. World Vision started when a little girl in China converted to Christianity after the sermon of evangelist Bob Pierce in the school she went to.
The book says:
As the founder of both World Vision and Samaritan’s Purse, Bob Pierce may rank as the leading religious philanthropist of the twentieth century. He first visited China as an evangelist in 1947. Upon his arrival, a Dutch Reformed missionary, Tena Hoelkeboer, invited him to preach to her school of four hundred Chinese girls. Pierce agreed, but, the day after his short evangelistic sermon, one of Hoelkeboer’s students, White Jade, informed her father that she had converted to Christianity. Her father’s response was to throw her out of the house. Hoelkeboer, distressed at the prospect of taking on yet another orphan, demanded of Pierce, “What are you going to do about it? Pierce gave Hoelkeboer ten dollars, all the money he had, and promised to send more each month on his return to the United States. After his return home, Pierce recounted the story to his American audiences, and it continues to be retold as the origin of both World Vision and Samaritan’s Purse. Pierce’s initial overseas encounter changed him. He had gone as a young American evangelist but returned as a missionary ambassador, bringing both the spiritual and physical needs of the world to the attention of American evangelicals. Pierce soon founded World Vision in 1950 as a small American evangelical agency with a simple mission of evangelism and child care in Asia.
The origin story of World Vision, as detailed in the book edited by Thomas J. David proves that there is far more than what World Vision wants people to believe from reading their website. The real origin story reveals that Bob Pierce was converting minors in China. Pierce was invited to a school to give an evangelical sermon, after which, a little girl converted to Christianity and was subsequently thrown out of her house by her family. It was to rehabilitate girls like her that World Vision was started.
The book states that in 1947, Bob Pierce, during his visit to China, converted 17,000 people to Christianity.
Conversion of minors falls squarely under the predatory proselytisation category. Hinduphobia Tracker defines ‘conversion by brainwashing’ as:
“Religious brainwashing essentially means the often subtle and forcible indoctrination to induce someone to give up their religious beliefs to accept contrasting regimented ideas. Religious brainwashing also involves propaganda and manipulation. It involves the systematic effort, driven by religious malice and indoctrination, to persuade “non-believers’ to accept allegiance, command, or doctrine to and of a contrasting faith. Cases of such brainwashing are far more nuanced than direct threats, coercion, inducement and violence. In such cases, it is often seen that there is repeated, subtle and continual manipulation of the victim to induce disaffection towards their own faith and acceptance of the contrasting faith of the perpetrator. While subtle indoctrination is widely acknowledged as predatory, an element which is often understated in such conversions or the attempts of such conversion is the role of loyalty and trust which might develop between the perpetrator and the victim. Fiduciary relationships are often abused to affect such religious conversion. For example, an educator transmits the religious doctrine of a competing faith to a Hindu student. The Hindu student is likely to accept what the teacher is transmitting owing to the existence of the fiduciary relationship. The exploitation of the fiduciary relationship to religiously indoctrinated victims would also be included in this category. Since the underlying animosity towards the victim’s faith forms the basis of predatory proselytization, such cases are considered religiously motivated hate crimes”. Children, especially, are vulnerable to such brainwashing since they have no agency and maturity to understand the repercussions of religious conversion.
It is, therefore, evident that the very foundation of World Vision was that of predatory proselytisation where kids were being brainwashed to accept Christianity.
Bob Pierce himself has been classified as a “religious fundamentalist” in the book. The essay in the book says that Pierce started preaching at the age of 13 and went on to join a fundamentalist Christian organisation called “Youth For Christ” (YFC).
The book says:
One particular group, Youth for Christ (YFC), may best exemplify this reengagement. By 1944, as a travelling evangelist, Pierce had eagerly joined YFC and quickly became a vice president in the organization. Alongside other new voices such as Billy Graham, Pierce garnered national attention as politicians, preachers, and newspapermen promoted the rallies’ success. Throughout the 1940s, revivals of thousands of young people gathered in American cities each Saturday night. As its motto, “Geared to the times, but anchored to the rock,” claimed, YFC embraced popular culture, American civic faith, and potentially global outreach. Torrey Johnson, YFC’s first president, told Time magazine that his organization’s goal was the “spiritual revitalization of America and the complete evangelization of the world in our generation.” Youth for Christ sponsored hundreds of “world vision” rallies promoting the work of international missionaries.
The book further says that YFC had established “invasion teams” which worked towards “greater conquests for Christ”.
Further, the book reveals that Bob Pierce envisioned himself as the next Billy Graham – one of the most famous evangelists in America as well. This name will hold significance further in the article. Pierce, the founder of World Vision, became known as the “Billy Graham of Asia”.
Pierce further has been defined as a “Cold Warrior” – essentially – an enthusiast who aligned himself with the foreign policy of the United States of America. The book says:
As an ardent “Cold Warrior,” Pierce supported America’s global reach to contain communism in Asia. He became a field representative in the emerging International Christian Leadership (ICL) organization that networked with American politicians and international Christian leaders in efforts to strengthen both foreign relations and worldwide Christian revival.
In this context, it is evident that Bob Pierce was an active evangelist and focused almost solely on converting people to Christianity in Asia and idolised Billy Graham – so much so – that he came to be known as Billy Graham of India. Further, Pierce also aligned himself with US foreign policy aims during the cold war and received over 50% of its revenue from the US government since the early days of World Vision.
USAID funded World Vision and its story in India
Here is what the World Vision India website says about its origin story:
- 1950: Bob Pierce started World Vision. The child sponsorship programme began in response to the needs of hundreds of thousands of orphans of the Korean War.
- 1951: World Vision started operations in India and subsequently set up a single-room office in Kolkata in 1958.
- 1960 – World Vision India started 6 childcare projects and worked with institutions for child well-being
It goes on then, to talk about World Vision’s humanitarian work India.
However, as seems to be the norm with World Vision, the truth is far from it – and murkier than what they wish for people to know.
Before Bob Pierce came to India, he was proselytising people in Korea (after converting 17,000 in China). After his initial conversion stint in China, he couldn’t go back since the Chinese Communist Revolution, after which, missionaries were expelled from the country. His next stop was Korea, but even from there, after converting some, he fled since the Communist troops marched into North Korea.
Pierce, wasn’t to be deterred, though. He wanted to convert more Koreans. So after getting some articles placed in the press, he managed to go back to Korea as a “war correspondent”. There, he tended to Christians afflicted by the war.
Pierce was in Seoul till 1952. But the book titled “Man of Vision”, written by Bob Pierce’s daughter places Pierce in India in 1953.
In this letter by Bob Pierce in February 1953, he talks about how he was in Calcutta and was converting Hindus and Sikhs.
In 1956-1957 too, Pierce travelled to India to preach to Indian students – again – children.
The World Vision website simply says that it started its operations in India in 1951 and subsequently, opened an office in Calcutta in 1958. However, it cleverly leaves out the travels of Pierce to India before that and his rampant conversion activity in India.
The meeting of Jawaharlal Nehru, Bob Pierce and Billy Graham: How Nehru gave permission for conversions and entertained US lobbying
There is another crucial piece of information that the World Vision website summarily leaves out. In 1956-1957, while Bob Pierce was converting Hindus and Sikhs, he also had an interesting meeting with the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
There exists a picture in the archives of George Fox University, where Bob Pierce met PM Nehru, along with another famous evangelist Billy Graham. An archived version of the image can be found here.
To understand the implications of this picture, we must, along with Billy Graham, also understand who evangelist Billy Graham was.
William Franklin Graham Jr (Billy Graham) was an American evangelist and ordained Southern Baptist minister. In his years of preaching the gospel and converting people, Graham met several state heads and personalities. He was extremely close to several US Presidents. He famously said, “Everywhere I go I find that people … both leaders and individuals … are asking one basic question,” Billy Graham has said. “‘Is there any hope for the future?’ My answer is the same, ‘Yes, through Jesus Christ.’”
According to the Billy Graham website, After being encouraged by a key figure in the Evangelical Alliance in London, Rev. Graham scheduled Crusades in Bombay (now Mumbai), Madras (Chennai), Kottayam, Palamcottah, New Delhi and Calcutta (Kolkata).
His first visit to India has been documented on the website as 1956. “His 1956 visit was timely, as India was beginning to strengthen its ties with the Communist bloc, raising questions about the role of Western influence and faith in the area. Billy Graham, however, was well prepared, taking the initiative to meet with the current secretary of state for a briefing on relations between the U.S. and India”.
This trip appears to be a significant one not just from the point of view of Christian conversions, but also geo-politically. It was in this period that Graham and Bob Pierce met Jawaharlal Nehru as well.
In the book, “Billy Graham – His Life and Influence” written by David Aikman (former TIME magazine senior correspondent), there are details of the meeting which prove that Graham was furthering USA’ foreign policy goals.
The book says, “Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had just started to implement his policy of nonalignment in the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. Though India was a democratic nation, Nehru had been profoundly influenced by Fabian socialism and, in fact, was sympathetic to Marxism. His concept of “nonalignment” and “neutralism” made him unwilling to be a pawn of Washington against Moscow. India, however, was by far the most important of the nations of the “third world” (another Nehru coinage) that had not yet succumbed to Communist Party rule, and Delhi’s sympathy toward Moscow not only rankled Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, but also it frankly worried him. With Graham’s India crusade followed by just two months the triumphant visit to Delhi by Soviet leaders Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev, the religious event also had important implications for American diplomacy”.
The book states clearly that the US Government was using Billy Graham’s Christian crusades to further foreign policy goals and the first time they tried this was when Graham was visiting India.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent greetings to Graham before his trip to India and Secretary of State Dulles met Graham to impress upon him that he must not make any political mistakes during his trip to India and focus on furthering American interests.
The book says, “This was but the first of many occasions US administrations found it useful to capitalize or piggyback on Graham’s evangelistic activities and indeed his prominence as a worldwide evangelist. In decades to come, not only did his crusades have the indirect effect of helping to bring down totalitarian regimes, but, on occasion, Graham served as an unofficial emissary for American presidents to world leaders with whom the US government was unable otherwise to have direct contact”.
The book reveals that the US Ambassador to India John Sherman Cooper had “strongly” pushed Nehru to meet Graham. When they met, Nehru looked bored until Graham started talking about Christianity.
In the meeting, it is said that when Billy Graham was talking to Nehru about how much he liked India, he displayed boredom and fiddled with a paper opener.
However, the situation evolved when Graham changed his strategy. Realising that Nehru was not particularly interested in talking about how much Billy Graham had learnt about India on his trip, he switched the conversation to Christianity.
“Nehru immediately became alert and, according to Graham, began to ask questions”, the book says. The book further makes a shocking revelation. Jawaharlal Nehru told Billy Graham that he had nothing against Christian missionaries so long as they avoided politics.
It is pertinent to note here that the image of Nehru, Billy Graham and Bob Pierce was ‘created on’ the George Fox University website in 1957. But, according to the records we can find, the actual meeting possibly took place in 1956. The account of the meeting finds its place in several books – one of them being the Autobiography of Billy Graham called “Just As I Am”. The book by Billy Graham does not mention Bob Pierce being present during this meeting, however, the book makes it amply clear that Graham and Pierce knew each other very well.
Interestingly, in the biographical book on Bob Pierce, “This One Thing I Do”, the introduction was written by Billy Graham. In that book, with a foreword by the Chaplain of the United States Senate, there is a picture of the same meeting with Jawaharlal Nehru.
In the book itself, there is no mention of Jawaharlal Nehru or the meeting with him, along with Billy Graham. However, when one looks at the two pictures, it is evident that it is from the same meeting. It is rather strange why Billy Graham – who wrote the introduction to the book on Bob Pierce – has himself edited out of the picture.
Here are the two pictures side by side.
From separate accounts, we also know that Bob Pierce was in India in 1956-1957 – the same time Graham was in India. It is therefore safe to assume that the meeting where Nehru told Graham that he was fine with Christian missionary activity was the one where Bob Pierce was also present. That assumption also seems accurate because this is the only meeting with Nehru mentioned by Billy Graham in his autobiography which spans over 800 pages.
Coming back to the meeting, Billy Graham in his autobiography writes this about the meeting with Nehru:
Billy Graham himself says that Jawaharlal Nehru specifically told him that he was “not opposed to the work of the missionaries”. Further, Graham says that Nehru “commended us on our trip, saying in sincerity that he thought we had done good work”.
What “work” were Billy Graham and Bob Pierce doing in India, which Nehru appreciated and commended so deeply?
In the introductory para on India, Billy Graham in his book writes – “Billy Graham was cutting through India like Gabriel in a gabardine suit.” That was the way Time described me in the February 13, 1956, issue. It was nice to get some coverage in the Luce magazine, but I preferred the Associated Press wirephoto of me astride an elephant in Kottayam, looking far from angelic as I held on for dear life to the tough hide behind those huge floppy ears.
This is the tip in which Graham met Nehru, in which he appreciated his work.
The TIME magazine that Graham is titled “Religion: Billy in India” was published on 13th February 1956. An archived version of the article can be read here.
The same article in the magazine that Billy Graham talks about in his autobiography says (emphasis added):
“Many Indians seem to have the idea that Christianity is a Western religion,” he told them. “That is wrong. There were Christian churches in India before America was discovered.” And when he invited his audience to “make decisions for Christ,” they surged forward in record numbers. In three days, he spoke to more than 100,000 people, and received about 4,000 “decisions.” In his book, Graham says that there could have been more converts but at least he made up for it by distributing 12,000 copies of the Bible.
When TIME talks about “4000 decisions for Christ”, it essentially means that Billy Graham managed to convert 4000 non-Christians into Christianity during that “crusade”.
TIME further says in the article (emphasis added):
Presiding over a gathering of 15,000 on the grounds of New Delhi’s Y.M.C.A. was an Indian Christian Princess, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, who in 1930 renounced her father’s palace in Lucknow, became a Christian (Presbyterian), and is now India’s Minister of Health. “Billy Graham,” she said, “is one of those rare jewels who tread this earth periodically and draw, by their lives and teaching, millions of others closer to God.”
In his book. Graham writes about a conversation with the Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles.
“Billy,” John said, “you are on your way to India, a country that has no conception of God. You will need a special approach to break into people’s thinking, because they know nothing of the Bible or God. Do you have such an approach in mind?”
In essence, this would mean that Dulle was fully aware of the proselytising activity that Graham would undertake in India.
During the same trip, when Graham was in Madras, he writes of it, “I spoke to a student gathering of 7,500 out of which 250 responded to the Invitation to commit their lives to Christ. Many were from non-Christian backgrounds”.
In his writing, Graham also insults Hindus and their faith, weeping and praying for Hindus to accept Christ while standing inside a temple. He had visited Bombay and Madras before he visited Delhi to meet PM Nehru, and therefore, when Nehru appreciated and lauded the work Graham was doing and condoned his missionary work, he was also appreciating the vile, Hinduphobic practices that Graham detailed in his book.
Graham explains that he stayed away from insulting Hinduism while talking to the masses in India and instead, mostly focussed on talking about Christianity. However, he does reveal that he would communicate to the people that only Jesus Christ was worthy of being worshipped, not the Hindu Gods and Goddesses.
Graham continued his evangelism in Kottayam and Palamcottah before he finally reached Delhi. In Delhi, he proselytised and converted at a gathering of thousands, introduced by Congress leader Rajkumari Amrit Kaur – the first health minister who was also a Christian. It was apparently through Kaur’s contact that Graham then met PM Nehru.
As for Bob Pierce, he was also indulging in widespread evangelism and conversion, as detailed above.
Therefore, when Billy Graham and Bob Pierce met Nehru and Nehru proclaimed that a) he had no problem with Christian Missionary work and b) that he appreciated the “good work” they had done during their trip, Nehru condoned and commended, essentially, the rampant conversion of Hindus in India, by foreign missionaries who were deeply tied to the US Government, were close to Presidents and were explicitly not only carrying out the work of conversion but also, were agents to further the foreign policy goals of the US Government. By condoning Christian missionary work in front of two evangelists working to “spread the Gospel” and convert non-Christians, Nehru essentially gave a free pass to World Vision and other Christian Missionary organisations to carry out their conversion activity, thereby inviting an organisation like World Vision to set up base in India. This meeting with Nehru took place in 1956. It was in 1958 that World Vision set up its office in Calcutta and since then, has indulged in conversion activity in India. For decades, it received billions of dollars from USAID and the US State Department and it was only in 2024 that PM Narendra Modi cancelled World Vision India’s FCRA licence. Before the cancellation of their license, World Vision India was receiving 100s of crores every single year – used to convert Hindus all across India. It would, therefore, not be unfair to conclude that it was indeed Jawaharlal Nehru who unleashed the beast of Christian conversion upon unsuspecting Hindus only begging for Graham and his likes to not “interfere politically”. What this meant was rather simple – during the Cold War, India would remain non aligned and the US should, by and large, not interfere with that so Nehru’s political ambitions are not dented. In exchange, they could convert as many Hindus as they want – with the explicit blessing of the Indian government and its head – Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
India revisited – Indira Gandhi continues the legacy of Jawaharlal Nehru
In 1972, Billy Graham returned to India. The Hindu on 24th November 1972 published a report that read as follows:
The noted American evangelist, Dr. Billy Graham, to-night expressed the hope that his visit to this country would help improve relations between India and the United States. Dr. Graham, who was talking to newsmen at the airport here on his arrival from Kohima, was asked if he was carrying any message from President Nixon for Mrs. Indira Gandhi. “I am sorry, I can’t answer that,” he replied. Dr. Graham, a close friend of Mr. Nixon, is scheduled to meet Mrs. Gandhi on Monday. Dr Graham said the Indian Government had gone out of the way in permitting him to visit Nagaland. “I am grateful for this,” he added. During his stay in the capital, he will also call on the President, Mr. V.V. Giri. Earlier, talking to newsmen at Calcutta airport, Dr Graham said he had talks with Mr Nixon twice before he left for India. “I love India and I want the United States and India to become very close friends. This is necessary because we need each other for our mutual interests,” he said.
There were certain operative parts of this short report that we must bear in mind:
- He said he could not tell the press the message he was carrying for Indira Gandhi from President Nixon.
- The Indian govt had gone “out of its way” to permit him to visit Nagaland.
- He wants a great relationship between the US and India.
The report by The Hindu would make it appear as though Graham was merely a Christian pastor, close to the President of the US, who was in India to improve ties and visit Nagaland. However, there was far more to the story – which The Hindu, of course, didn’t report.
Billy Graham details his 1972 trip to India and his meeting with Indira Gandhi during that trip in his autobiography.
About his mandate to meet Indira Gandhi, Graham writes:
President Nixon, at the request of the American consul in New Delhi, had personally asked me to seek an interview with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, in part to find out from her what kind of ambassador she wanted from America. He asked me to notice every single thing about her—the movement of her hands, the expression on her face, how her eyes looked. “When you’ve finished the interview,” he said to me, “go to the American embassy and dictate your report to me.” And so, when I visited with Mrs. Gandhi in the Indian capital, I put the question to her. She told me she wanted someone who understood economics, who had the ear of the President, and who had influence in Congress. This I reported to the President. He later appointed Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Whether my report influenced the President’s decision, I never learned.
According to what Billy Graham wrote in his autobiography, it is evident that while Billy Graham was in India for a completely different reason, his mandate from the US government was to meet Indira Gandhi, observe her mannerisms and report back to the US. It is also evident that Billy Graham was close enough to the US dispensation to affect their decisions.
However, this mandate by the US government was essentially a pile-on. It was what the government wanted Graham to do, while he was visiting India for his real motive.
In his book, Graham makes it clear that he was visiting Nagaland for the purpose of evangelism.
“Our purpose in going to India was to preach in Nagaland, an isolated area tucked in the mountainous, jungle-covered northeast corner of India near the Burmese border. The area was home to a dozen separate tribes, each with its own dialect and often with a history of headhunting“, Graham writes.
Graham writes that in late November 1972, it was almost miraculous that the Indira Gandhi government granted him a permit to visit Nagaland, since at that time, due to instability, foreigners were not getting the permission to visit the Indian state.
What becomes interesting is how Graham got the permit. He writes (emphases added):
This permission was in response to an appeal from a delegation headed by the Reverend Longri Ao and other church leaders from Nagaland. (Assisting them was a gifted young Indian clergyman named Robert Cunville, who was head of the North East India Christian Council and had been invited to be director of youth evangelism for the World Council of Churches; he later joined our Team as an evangelist and has had a wide ministry not only in India but in many other parts of the world as well.)
It becomes important here to remember what “World Council of Churches” is. In our previous report where we wrote about the USAID-funded World Vision, we investigated how World Council of Churches was a trusted partner of World Vision – the evangelical organisation which was founded by Bob Pierce.
In their own words, “The World Council of Churches is a fellowship of churches which confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour according to the scriptures, and therefore seek to fulfil together their common calling to the glory of the one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It is a community of churches on the way to visible unity in one faith and one eucharistic fellowship, expressed in worship and in common life in Christ. It seeks to advance towards this unity, as Jesus prayed for his followers, “so that the world may believe.” (John 17:21). The World Council of Churches (WCC) is the broadest and most inclusive among the many organized expressions of the modern ecumenical movement, a movement whose goal is Christian unity”.
World Council of Churches is funded by several governments across the world and also gets substantial funding from a German NGO called “Bread For The World”. Bread For The World funds and has connection to several anti-India NGO, Urban Naxals, Jihadis and nefarious elements like Harsh Mandar.
A full report on this can be read here.
Coming back to Billy Graham’s Nagaland trip, Graham writes that when he landed in Nagaland, he was received by American consul who was a good friend of Mother Teresa.
Interestingly, in another book about Bob Pierce – the founder of World Vision – the NGO was also paying money to Mother Teresa.
Billy Graham in his book writes that when he reached Nagaland, he started shaking hands with people when the police pulled him and made him sit in the car because they felt he was in danger. He says that he then arrived at the place to deliver the sermon to over 90,000 people. Thereafter, he was taken to the government house to stay.
“After that, we were taken to a government house to spend the night. The chief minister of the cabinet of Nagaland had arranged a dinner for us. At that dinner, the schedule for the next day was discussed”, Graham writes.
The website of Billy Graham says, “500,000 people attended Billy Graham’s Crusade from November 20-22, 1972. The crowd included many different tribes, each having their own interpreter. Mr. Graham took note of the attendees’ tribal dress, painted faces, and spears in hand as he preached from the platform, declaring God’s love for them”.
Other than the fact that the Indira Gandhi government had provided him police protection, a stay in the government house and his evangelism was entertained by the CM of Nagaland, Indira Gandhi had also arranged for helicopters for Graham and said that she would be following his trip with great interest.
“Mrs. Gandhi had told me that she would be following the trip with great personal interest and warned me of some particular dangers. She ordered two helicopters to pick us up at the conclusion of our meetings”, Graham writes.
This portion of Billy Graham’s writing reveals a few things:
- Indira Gandhi was keenly following Billy Graham’s tour of Nagaland.
- She gave him a permit to visit Nagaland when foreigners were not being granted permit due to the instability.
- She gave him the permission to visit Nagaland on the insistence of a priest associated with World Council of Churches.
- She gave Billy Graham police protection, government accommodation and private helicopters to travel.
- She went out of her way to ensure the evangelist Billy Graham – who was converting hundreds of thousands of non-Christians (predominantly Hindus) could visit Nagaland during instability to convert people.
- Billy Graham was extremely close to the US government and was carrying out their foreign policy goals when he met heads of state like Indira Gandhi – and reporting back to the US Government.
With the USAID expose and the investigation that USAID and the US Deep state was giving billions of dollars to World Vision – a Christian conversion racket – the history of how Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi espoused Billy Graham and Bob Pierce (the founder of World Vision) becomes important. It is not to say that Christian Evangelists were not already exploiting the vulnerable indigenous people from India, however, Jawaharlal Nehru essentially sanctioned the conversion activity of Billy Graham and Bob Pierce and years later, Indira Gandhi continued that legacy with Billy Graham. After 70 years of World Vision converting Hindus, in 2024 – a year before the USAID scandal broke – the Modi government cancelled the FCRA license of World Vision. Sources confirm that the license was cancelled because of their clandestine conversion activity – illegal under FCRA rules.
This is part 2 in the exclusive series investigating the activity of USAID funded World Vision. Part 1 can be read here.
