Forced Conversion

Sad state of Christians in Pakistan: Forced to convert, pushed to marry kids, their girls abducted at will

As many 100 cases of forced faith conversion, child marriage, and abduction of girls and women belonging to the Christian community have been reported in Pakistan between January 2019 and October 2022

Karnataka: Dalit man forcibly converted, circumcised, made to eat beef, says Police

Based on a complaint from Sridhar Gangadhar (26), the police said they have registered a case against 12 people, but no arrests have been made so far

Uttar Pradesh: Four booked for forced conversion, abduction and gang rape of 23-year-old woman

Quoting the complaint lodged by the woman's father, SP Santosh Kumar Mishra said she was allegedly abducted on 14 June, drugged and taken to Mumbai by the brother of Javed, a man she used to talk to over the phone at times

The killing of two Sikhs shows Pakistan's continued persecution of minorities

Data from the 2017 Census shows that while Muslims make up 96.2 per cent of Pakistan's population, Hindus are only 1.6 per cent, Christians 1.59 per cent, Scheduled Castes 0.25 per cent, Ahmadis 0.22 per cent, and other minorities 0.07 per cent. There are countless incidents of minorities having to face rapes, forced conversions, murder and destruction of their property

By enforcing notices under SMA, govt telling interfaith couples to convert or wait endlessly, says petitioner Nida Rehman

Notices of marriages under SMA intended to safeguard the interests of the two parties to the marriage, but for some years, they have been used to prevent, often forcibly, inter-faith and inter-caste marriages

Islamabad HC forms commission to investigate reported abduction, conversion of two Hindu girls in Sindh

The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday formed a five-member commission to probe the alleged abduction, forced conversion and marriage of two teenage Hindu girls in Sindh province that led to massive protests by the minority community in the country.

CPM alleges Hindu Jagran Mancha forcefully reconverted 98 Christian tribals in Tripura to Hinduism; right-wing body denies charges

CPI(M) accused the Hindu Jagaran Mancha, a right wing group, of forcibly reconverting 98 people belonging to 23 tribal families to Hinduism

BJP training manual says Maoists in India get support from Pakistan, China, terms them big threat to internal security

BJP training manual says that Maoists are "reportedly conspiring to conduct joint strikes with the support of terrorist outfits active in north-eastern states".

Rajasthan HC 'guidelines' on religious conversion burden women, seem to contradict Right to Privacy law

Converting your religion and spiritual faith is a deeply personal decision that only you get to make, right? Wrong! The Rajasthan High Court has just turned religious conversion into a reality game show, where for the first time, the general public gets to call in and vote on your conversion. Okay not exactly, but really close.

Rajasthan HC issues guidelines to check forced conversions and inter-faith marriages, makes 30 days advance notice mandatory

Any person going for religious conversion on his own should inform the district collector 30 days in advance, the Jodhpur High Court ordered on Friday