India in Germany

(Photo out of Wikimedea)
I first came to Germany in 1971. In the very first year here, I met the girl who was to become my wife. I was a British soldier stationed in Lippstadt. She was living with her parents in a city called Bochum. To get to Bochum, I used to catch a train. Normally it took just over an hour to get from Lippstadt to Bochum.
About half way on the journey we came to a city called Hamm. Hamm was a strange place. The train pulled into the station and we waited there for 10-15 minutes. Then the train moved out the same way we came in. The locomotive had been moved from the front to the back.
For some reason Hamm always remained with me. Years later, I heard that one of my old Bible School friends had gone to live there. At some point a church was also planted.
These days Hamm is well known for something else.
The Sri Kamadchi Ampal Temple has been in Hamm since 1989. Originally, it was situated towards the west of the city. In 1997 together with its gods, it relocated to Hamm-Uentrop.
In 2002 a big new temple was opened, which is in fact, the biggest Hindu temple in Germany.
The temple's goddess looks from the central shrine to the east, towards the rising sun. Every year in May - June around 20.000 visitors come to th annual pu blic procession. The statue of the godess, Sri Kamadchi, circulates th temple through the nearby streets on a special chariot. As well as being seen by many people, Hindus believe she is blessing the town and its citizens.

So Christian Europe goes pagan, fasinated by the glimmer of Eastern religions.
it is time that Europe awakens and remembers it Christian heritage, not to despite people of a different culture, but to remember the message of the cross that brings life and not religion with all of its rules and regulations.