INDIA, June 8, 2016 (Northeast Today): In a diktat which could snowball into a major controversy, leaders of 13 major churches of Mizoram have appealed to church members to refrain from practicing yoga. Mizoram Kohhran Hruaitute Committee (MKHC) leader and senior executive secretary of Mizoram Synod of Presbyterian Church Rev. Lalramliana Pachuau said that the churches regarded yoga as something that can dilute the doctrine of Christianity and asked the constituent churches of MKHC to issue messages cautioning their members.
Pachuau, however, did not have any objection to the government propagating yoga on the official level as the government is a secular institution. He said the issue was raised during the meeting of MKHC at the Synod office on June 2. It was decided in the meeting that yoga is based on Hindu philosophy and cannot be accepted as something that can be blended with Christianity, Pachuau said.