Editing Compassion International (section)

===Shutdown in India===
Compassion operated in India for 48 years, with $45&nbsp;million in transfers annually, making it India's largest single foreign donor.<ref name="nyt17m">{{cite news |last1=Barry |first1=Ellen |last2=Raj |first2=Suhasini |date=March 8, 2017 |title=Major Christian Charity Is Closing India Operations Amid a Crackdown |pages=A4 |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/world/asia/compassion-international-christian-charity-closing-india.html |access-date=March 9, 2017}}</ref> Compassion provided services under its Child Sponsor Program to 145,000 Indian children.<ref name="nyt17m" /> In 2015, Compassion affiliates' offices were raided by tax investigators seeking evidence on whether it was funding [[Freedom of religion in India|religious conversions]].<ref name="nyt17m" /> Compassion said that attempts were made to force the ministry to divert funding to non-Christian [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]] groups.<ref name="nyt17m" /> Compassion refused to do so as it would be a misuse of funds entrusted to them by donors around the world. After talks back and forth, in 2017 the [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]-led Indian government barred Compassion from transferring funds into India, forcing the group to close its operations there.<ref name="nyt17m" /> The Ministry of External Affairs later stated that the ban had nothing to do with the ideology of Compassion International.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Zeera |first1=Rosheena |date=March 9, 2017 |title=No 'Ideological' Reason Behind Compassion International Ban: MEA |work=The Quint |url=https://www.thequint.com/news/india/compassion-international-foreign-us-ngo-blames-rss-ideology-mea-responds |access-date=August 31, 2017}}</ref>