John Prabhudoss

John Prabhudoss is currently the President of the Federation of Indian American Christian Organizations (FIACONA), a national umbrella organization of Indian American Christians and of those who are interested in issues affecting Indian Christians. John Prabhudoss is one of the charter members of FIACONA in 2000. He was elected as its 6th President in 2014.

Career

In 1991 Prabhudoss started as a grassroots organizer and an associate of Rev. Jeff Snyder, the Executive Director of the Apostolic Coalition, a national public policy advocacy organization of conservative Christian movement in the United States with almost seven million followers. After working with Rev. Jeff Snyder for over six years, Prabhudoss began to spend more time on issues affecting Christian populations in other countries where Christians are a minority.

In 2000, when Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the then Prime Minister of India belonging to a Hindu fundamentalist political party visited Washington, D.C., Prabhudoss coordinated their efforts to highlight the violence against Christian communities carried out by the radical Hindu groups in India which began after the Hindu party came to power there. That successful effort brought major Indian American Christian leaders of various denominations together to create the Federation of Indian American Christian Organizations (of North America).

Prabhudoss has been working with successive US Administrations since then to help shape US policies towards India while keeping the violence against Christian church in India in its focus.