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India: state to tighten control on conversions – Report blames missionaries for violence in Madhya Pradesh

27 June 2005 – Vishal Arora - Compass Direct

New Delhi, July 26 (Compass) — The government of the north-central state of Madhya Pradesh has declared that it will amend its anti-conversion law to check the conversion of tribal people to Christianity. The decision was made after Narendra Prasad, a retired director-general of police, submitted a report on May 21 claiming missionaries were forcibly […]

Tagged With: India, Madhya Pradesh, missionaries

India: Evangelist Completes Controversial Prayer Meeting Hounded By Protests

25 January 2005 – UCAN

Bangalore, India (UCAN) — An internationally known Christian evangelist ended his three-day prayer meeting in southern India as protesters called for the resignation of the state government that had allowed it to proceed. Despite continued outcries by right-wing Hindu groups, American preacher Benny Hinn completed his “Festival of Blessings” Jan. 23 in Bangalore, the capital […]

Tagged With: Benny Hinn, BJP, India

India: dead man “reconverted”

23 October 2004 – Vishal Arora - Compass Direct

Delhi, October 12 (Compass) — Residents of Gurandi village, Orissa, dug up the body of a Catholic man on October 4, 2004, and ceremonially “reconverted” him to Hinduism, along with the living members of his family. The incident was triggered when Bala Tulasiga, a 35-year-old Catholic convert, was buried in a Hindu cemetery. Purna Chandra […]

Tagged With: India, Orissa, reconversions

India: Hindu ‘reconversions’ continue in Orissa

23 October 2004 – Satya Kumar - Compass Direct

Delhi, October 22 (Compass) — At least 336 tribal Christians were “reconverted” to Hinduism on October 17 in a mass ceremony organized by the World Hindu Council in Orissa, India. The ceremony took place in the remote village of Baridia in Sundargarh district, about 280 miles west of Bhubaneswar, the state capital of Orissa. Those […]

Tagged With: India, Orissa, reconversions

Bihar and Orissa: Christians return to Hinduism

16 September 2004 – Indo-Asian News Service

Patna, Sep 15 (IANS) — Terming it a “return home,” the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) re-converted 55 Dalits to Hinduism after a religious ritual in a Bihar village. Eight families of these socially marginalized sections who had earlier embraced Christianity underwent purification rites in Chandarpur village of Samastipur district Tuesday in a ‘yagna’ organised by […]

Tagged With: Bihar, India, Orissa, reconversions

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