The leader of Baptists in Nagaland has urged politicians in the Christian-majority state not to betray their faith for money and power. “Do not surrender your Christian principles and above all your faith for the sake of money and development,” says Reverend Aelhou Keyho, general secretary of the Nagaland Baptist Churches Council (NBCC) in a letter addressed to leaders of all political parties, mostly Christians, in the northeastern Indian state. Nagaland is scheduled to elect its legislative assembly on February 27.
Reverend Keyho urged the state’s politicians not to fall into “the hands” of those using development as a ploy to “pierce the heart of Jesus Christ” and “allow God to weep.”
