Bastar: The Chhattisgarh government has been funding tribal communities to develop and maintain their traditional places of worship, known as Devgudis, so that they aren’t lured by anyone to convert to another religion, said state industry minister Kawasi Lakma on Aug. 10. Lakma, a senior Congress leader from Bastar, whichContinue Reading
Bhopal: The police in Madhya Pradesh have registered 28 cases of forcible religious conversions under the Freedom of Religion law which was passed by the state assembly in March. State Home Minister Narottam Mishra, in a written reply to a question, informed the Vidhan Sabha that 37 accused have beenContinue Reading
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said the state’s new freedom of religion law is his government’s Beti Bachao Abhiyan or save the daughter mission. Chouhan said no one will be able to convert anyone from one religion to another through marriage or “any other fraudulent meansContinue Reading
Hyderabad: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi December 29 hit out at BJP governments in the states for bringing ordinances against religious conversion through fraudulent means, including those for the sake of marriage, claiming they violate the fundamental rights under the Constitution. He also called the Centre’s farm laws “draconian” and daredContinue Reading
New Delhi: A week after Yogi Adityanath-led government’s new ordinance against the unlawful conversion became law, the UP police on December 2 stopped a marriage ceremony between a Muslim man and Hindu woman in Lucknow despite the consent of both the families, citing the new law. Just before the scheduledContinue Reading
Ram Puniyani The politics of communal polarization in is focusing on many identity issues, one being the Love Jihad, where the Hindu girl married to a Muslim or Christian man is targeted, and is legally manipulated in a manner to ensure that she is forced to be sent to herContinue Reading
New Delhi: The apex body of Roman Catholic Church in India Wednesday appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “curb the spread of hatred by CM Raghubar Das” a month after the Jharkhand government passed a bill restricting religious conversions on August 12. In his strongly worded letter, Catholic BishopsContinue Reading
Guwahati: At a time when religious conversion has emerged as a controversial topic, the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) national general secretary Y Raghavulu claimed that every year about eight lakh Hindus are being converted to other religions. On the sidelines of a function organized to felicitate veteran VHP leader MohanlalContinue Reading
Washington: India witnessed religiously motivated killings, arrests, riots and coerced religious conversions and the police in some cases failed to respond effectively to communal violence, according to the US state department report on International Religious Freedom 2014. In the India section of the Congressional mandated annual report released by secretaryContinue Reading