KP Yohannan Talks COVID-19 with Kerby Anderson
DALLAS, TX — The Point of View radio talk show has been recognized as “America’s most popular call-in show” by Christianity Today magazine. The program, broadcasted nationally and hosted by Kerby Anderson, Penna Dexter and Kelly Shackelford, “provides biblical clarity, truth and content to restore a Christian worldview” to our culture.
Gospel for Asia (GFA) founder, K.P. Yohannan, was honored to be an invited guest on the June 8, 2020, Point of View broadcast. He was interviewed by Kerby Anderson. The topic of their conversation was the COVID-19 pandemic in South Asia and its effects in India in particular.
The Crisis
The impact of COVID-19 in India is far greater than most people might imagine. For instance, India has had the third-largest number of new cases of COVID-19 in the world in the three days between Yohannan’s interview and the framing of this article on June 11. India currently ranks fourth among nations with the most cases of COVID despite the late arrival of the pandemic in significant numbers.
Yohannan explained that South Asia’s population of more than 2 billion people is, indeed, endangered by the virus, but that “95 percent of the problem they face is not coronavirus. It is starvation.”
He expressed particular and passionate concern about the hundreds of thousands of children living on the streets of Mumbai. Those children are already hard-pressed to find food on a daily basis. They scavenge and beg for their meagre fare. On a normal day, the streets are filled with “an ocean of people.” Handouts from those people are the only hope that most of the children have for survival.
But these are not normal days. The streets are empty during the shutdown of the economy. The shutdown not only prevents the spread of the virus, it also eliminates the primary food source for these impoverished children. Children are sitting on curbsides crying. No one knows how many are dying.
The stress on poverty-ridden families is more than we can measure. Yohannan shared the tragic story of a mother who had thrown her five children in a river because she could no longer bear to watch them starving. She vowed to end her own life as well.
The combination of the pandemic itself and the lockdown has brought untold misery to millions in the cities and remote villages where poverty and disease threaten their survival every day.
Click here, to read more about this article.
Click here, to read more blogs in Missionsbox from Gospel for Asia.
Learn more about Gospel for Asia: Facebook | YouTube | Instagram | SourceWatch | Integrity | Lawsuit Update | 5 Distinctives | 6 Remarkable Facts | Media Room | Poverty Solutions | Endorsements | 40th Anniversary | Lawsuit Response | Francis Chan Support | Donor Story
