A day after three archbishops of the Catholic Church called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi at New Delhi, sleuths from the Department of Income Tax knocked on the doors of the palatial residence of Paul Dhinakaran, head of the Jesus Calls ministry and India’s leading evangelist at Chennai and 27 other establishments owned by him across the State.
The premises that were raided include the Karunya Institute of Technology and Science at Coimbatore and Prayer Towers across the State. According to sources in the department, the raids were following specific inputs about large scale evasion of tax and non-disclosure of funds received from sources abroad for religious conversion.
Paul Dhinakaran is the son of late DGS Dhinakaran, founder of the Jesus Calls Ministry which has specialized in massive religious conversion using state-of-the-art methods. Prayer Intercessors manning the Prayer Towers across the globe will pray for customers who join various prayer schemes launched by the Jesus Calls Ministry. All satellite television channels in regional languages air programmes featuring the miracles happening across the world for customers joining the prayer schemes paying hefty amount.
The Prime Minister had on Tuesday had a meeting with a team of cardinals of the Catholic Church that included Baselios Cleemis Catholicos who once said that the Christian minorities were not safe under the Modi regime. The Church is reportedly upset over the growth of the ministry launched by the Dhinakarans which has poached thousands of its own believers.
In the run up to the 2019 Lok Sabha election, Paul Dhinakaran created a sensation all over Tamil Nadu with his prayer meetings where he emphasized the need to vote out the ruling regime. “Present leaders who are known to everybody shall be quietened in 2019 by the Lord.
Young leaders with forward looking principles and plans for progress shall be placed in authority in the nation in 2019. Young leaders would come to the rulership and leadership of the nation,” Paul had said in these prayer meetings.
