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Joseph D'souza is an Indian activist for Dalit rights. As of 2012, he was International President of the Dalit Freedom Network (DFN) and President of the All India Christian Council (AICC). On 30 August 2014, he was consecrated as Moderator Bishop of the Good Shepherd Church of India. ==Career== Joseph D'souza was born into a Christian home in a family with an upper-caste origin, living in what he calls "Christian ghettos" surrounded by low caste and Dalit people. He attended Karnataka University where he obtained a B.S. in Chemistry, and the Asian Theological Seminary in the Philippines where he gained an M.A. in Communications. He also studied at the Gospel for Asia Biblical Seminary, an affiliate of Serampore University, where he received a Doctor in Divinity degree. D'souza proposed marriage to his future wife Mariam "despite" her being from an Adivasi tribal group. His family and some of his friends were against the marriage, but they went ahead anyway. One of the factors in D'souza's decision to take up the cause of Christians and Dalits was the start of attacks on Christians in the mid-1990s, including the burning to death of the missionary Graham Staines and his two young sons in Orissa in 1999. D'souza joined the Indian branch of George Verwer's evangelist Operation Mobilisation, and is now an international vice-president. He has set up 107 Dalit Education Centers serving nearly 25,000 Dalit children working with Operation Mobilisation. In 1998, he founded the All India Christian Council (AICC). The AICC is one of the largest interdenominational Christian alliances, formed to deal with human rights issues and national concerns common to Christians in India. D'souza founded the Dalit Freedom Network (DFN) in 2002, first in the United States and, later, expanding to other countries. The DFN now has offices in several other countries. D'souza travels widely in campaigning for the human rights of the marginalized and oppressed in society, particularly the backward castes in India. D'souza has discussed human rights issues with politicians in Switzerland, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, and at Human rights commission meetings. His views on Dalit freedom concerns have been reported by the BBC, Indo-Asian News Service, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. D'souza's daughter Beryl is the Dalit Freedom Network's medical director and anti-human trafficking director. 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「Joseph D'souza」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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