DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 20 (MExN): The Dimapur Area Ao Baptist Pastors Fellowship (DAABPF) today said it was “aghast and pained” to know that Naga National Political Groups are “collecting taxes even from Church Building Constructions.”
A press note from the DAABPF said that different groups have been levying taxes on non-local skilled workers/labors since the Aoyim Baptist Church started its New Church Building construction with a dedicatory service on October 9, 2017. This, it said, ultimately adds up to the total cost of the Church building.
“The church members have painstakingly collected offerings and tithes for several years to construct the new church building. On the lookout, non-local workers are hired to do the construction works due to non-availability of local workers from whom the taxes are imposed,” the fellowship said.
The DAABPF termed such taxes even from the “construction of the house of God” as “against Christian testimony and biblical teaching;” and urged that such practices should be refrained from.
