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Church's Auxiliary for Social Action ''(founded in 1947)'' is an irreligious Indian development organisation based in Chennai and a service wing of the National Council of Churches in India comprising the Orthodox and Protestant Church Societies in India. CASA is a member of ACT Alliance〔(ACT Alliance Members )〕 Mar Aprem Mooken writes,〔Mar Aprem Mooken, ''From Relief to Development: A Profile of CASA'', Jaffe Books, 1979, p.17. ()〕 ==Genesis== The partition of India played a virtual havoc with peoples lives which Jawaharlal Nehru,〔(''CASA - About us'' )〕 then Prime Minister of India wanted to address and shared it with J. Waskom Pickett and Marshall Russell Reed who involved the National Council of Churches in India (NCCI) to lend a hand in mitigating the suffering of the displaced people for which the NCCI formed an ad hoc Relief Committee. Over the years', the Relief Committee took different names, * 1947, Refugee and Famine Relief Committee or Central Relief Committee,〔''The National Christian Council Review'', Volume 97, Wesley Press, 1977, p.139. ()〕 * 1955, Committee on Relief and Gift Supplies (CORAGS),〔H. Dwight Swartzendruber, ''Forty Years of Service Beyond Our Borders'', Masthof Press, Morgantown, 2012. ()〕 * Christian Agency for Social Action,〔Harold C. Fey (Edited), ''A History of the Ecumenical Movement'', Volume 2: 1948-1968, Wipf and Stock, Eugene, 2004, p.228. ()〕 * (present) Church's Auxiliary for Social Action. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Church's Auxiliary for Social Action」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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