Joshua Project

The Joshua Project is a Christian organization based in Colorado Springs, United States, which seeks to coordinate the work of missionary organizations to track the ethnic groups of the world with the fewest followers of evangelical Christianity. To do so, it maintains ethnologic data to support Christian missions. It also tracks evangelism efforts among 17,000 people groups worldwide, to identify non-Christian people groups.

Quotes

• Martyrs continue to be glorified today. The notorious Joshua Project, based in Denver, Colorado, is a multi-billion-dollar global organization which has the conversion of all humanity to Christianity as its stated aim. In the use of controversial tactics, the end would seem to justify the means. One such tactic is to publicize widely a list of martyrs from the earliest Christian times to the present. The lists are systematically organized by country and district. One can go to the Joshua Project's database and find names of alleged martyrs in any given district of India, a list which is updated continually. This project has become a veritable machine for generating data and misinformation about any and every Christian death that could be blamed on others. In the case of India, the Joshua Project points its finger at Hindus who comprise the dominant faith and are clearly targeted as competitors to overcome. This is particularly ironic given that Hinduism has a reputation for embracing and receiving other faiths, including Christianity.
  • Malhotra, R., & Infinity Foundation (Princeton, N.J.). (2018). Being different: An Indian challenge to western universalism

• When AD2000 was conceived for India, the plan was based on a military model with the intent to invade, occupy, control, or subjugate its population. It was based on solid intelligence emanating from the ground and well-researched information on various facets of selected people groups. The idea was to send out spying missions to source micro details on religion and culture. The social and economic divisions in the various Indian communities were closely examined.
  A letter written to an agency in the US is re-directed immediately to Bengaluru and the agency in Bengaluru in turn tracks down the nearest evangelist and directs him to take upon the task of ministering the Gospel to the newest seeker. In fact, the mission goal is: ‘We need a church within cycling distance, then within walking distance and finally within hearing distance.’ The Church growth figures that are with Tehelka clearly indicate that this mission mandate is on in full swing. ...
  Unfortunately, the Bible thumpers are winning and they are being underwritten by the American tax payers. What they are probably not aware [of] is that missionaries in India’s back of the beyond villages, like Kerala, have been pulled into Bush’s missionary zeal. Sadly, while Pastor Prabhat Nayak is deeply committed to bring the villagers of Kerala to Christ, he is unaware that Christian evangelical theology and money doled out by the White House threatens to rip apart the social fabric of India.
  • Shashikumar, V.K. ‘Bush’s Conversion Agenda for India: Preparing for the Harvest’. Tehelka , February 2004. quoted from Malhotra, R., Nīlakantan, A. (2011). Breaking India: Western interventions in Dravidian and Dalit faultlines , also reproduced at [1]

• Readers familiar with the Joshua Project will recall the outcry it created in India when our book, Breaking India, exposed this sinister project by the Church’s global headquarters to develop an extensive database of every district in India with details on religious leaders, affiliations, and socio-demographics. The stated purpose was to micro-target individual communities for missionary work.
  • Malhotra, R. & Viswanathan V. (2022). Snakes in the Ganga : Breaking India 2.0.