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Dutch Priest in India Is Educating Too Well
Jealousy Seen as Cause for Ousting of Missionary - too sad to hear this
SRINAGAR, India, JULY 13, 2010 (Zenit.org).- A Dutch missionary of the Institute Mill Hill working in the Kashmir region of India has been asked by authorities to leave the country by the end of July.
His expulsion came as a surprise since the government had just renewed his visa until 2014.
But a coworker, Predhuman Joseph Dhar, contends that Father Jim Borst is being expelled because of jealously that his educational institutes are too successful.
Dhar explained this to AsiaNews in speaking about the missionary, who is also working on a translation of the Bible into the local Kashmir language. The Mill Hill institute has been active in Kashmir for more than 100 years, focusing primarily on education and health care.
Dhar is himself a former Hindu and convert to Catholicism. "The notice is sparked by jealous vested interests," he said.
Father Borst has run two schools in Kashmir since 1997; the staff is 99% Muslim and both institutions are renowned for the high-quality level of education.
"The Muslim intelligentsia schools are unable to compete with his," Dhar said. In fact, the schools have suffered attacks and accusations of proselytizing for Christianity.
In Kashmir the Christian population counts 14,000 faithful, about 0.0014% of the population, which is 97% Muslim.
"I'm really sorry. It is a great loss for me and the entire civil society of Kashmir ," Bishop Peter Celestine Elampassery of Jammu-Srinagar told AsiaNews. "Father Borst has lived here since 1963."
✜【出於對彼此的愛 】
有一雙愛侶所做出的耀眼示範深得德蘭修女的心，於是她常常向年輕聽眾講述這個故事：1982年，一對年輕男女來到我們在加爾各答的收容之家。他們聽說我們每天為七千人煮飯，所以給了我們一大筆錢，好協 助提供食物給需要的人。
✿ 我問他們：「你們是從哪裡得來這麼大一筆錢的？」
✿ 他們答道：「結婚前，我們打算不辦喜宴，也不買婚紗，而決定把錢用來提供食物給不幸的人們。」
✿ 我相當不解，因為在印度結婚是一件大事。有勇氣作出這樣的決定，實在是非同小可。所以我又問了一個問題：「可是你們為什麼要這麼做？」他們答道：「這是出於我們對彼此的愛，我們想要給彼此什麼特別的東西、美好的東西，於是給出了這分貢獻的愛。」
✿ 想到世上有這樣貢獻的愛，真是太美好了。我總是禱告：「親愛的主，請將恩典賜予這對年輕男女，讓他們在大喜之日可以給彼此一顆純淨的心、一分純淨的愛、一個純淨的軀體，以作為他們給彼此最大的愛的禮物。」
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