Monday, September 12, 2022

Letter From India To The Traditional Anglican Church Leadership

Following my post here on the history and questionable status of the TAC-affiliated Anglican Church in India, the visitor sent this letter via e-mail to the leadership of the TAC.
Dear Sir,

This is to bring to your attention that some people using the name of TAC and Church of England are involved in fraudulent activities in India. They are trying to sell off Church properties across India under false authority. These people claim themselves to be Secretary of the Church (Madhulika Joyce) Gurlal Singh Sahi, Hendrik James and others. Most of these people are non-christians and the Christian members which are shown by them are mere dummies.

They have already made a deal of a property belonging to the Church in Azadpur Fruit Market, New Delhi (This is the burial ground of the British Commandant - Sir Gordon Highlander) . Now they are trying to sell off properties in various districts like Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh. There is already a complaint registered against them in a police station in New Delhi for taking money for a piece of land but not delivering it to the buyer. The said matter is of the year 2010. This is only one part of their shoddy activities. Their website which claims for conducting so many christian activities in India is actually a scam since these pics are of actually from their school which they are running in Vikas Nagar Dehradun.

The main participants of the scam are Samuel Peter Prakash (Metropolitan), his Son John Ashish Prakash (Next projected Metropolitan) Daughter Madhulika Joyce Khanna (She has been married to a punjabi Hindu family and hence should not be a part of any Christian activity let alone heading the Church as Secretary). Sir, as far as I know there is no such post of Secretary in Anglican Church of India.

Sir, on their website they have shown John Ashish Prakash as the Bishop of Nagpur Diocese. The real fact is that they have no missionary work in that area. Not a single Church is being run by them. All claims are false and bogus.

Sir I am writing to all of you so that you may kindly remove them from your list of affiliated Churches since they are also tarnishing your name by showing them as being associated with you and people in India are being duped because of this affiliation.

Sir, with most respect I beg to say that if your organization is not taking any action upon these people we would be left with no other choice but to take the matter to the legal authorities and your connections to them will also be questioned.

Your Brother in Christ
An Anglican

I think the basic issue is that the TAC has been a futile effort from the start, with leadership tainted by scandal and its most visible project, the effort to enter the Roman Catholic Church via Anglicanorum coetibus, collapsed in bad faith and years of litigation. The situation in India has been little other than a confirmation that you don't get figs from thistles or grapes from thornbushes -- and unfortunately, this applies as well to the current generation of TAC leadership.

These men are false prophets, no better than their colleagues in India, and it's unrealistic to expect them to change. The most anyone can do is convince their followers, especially anyone who thinks remonstrance will have any effect with these men, to put their faith elsewhere.