Religious Conversion
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India First | Spare India! Lessons from 'The Kerala Story'
Sudesh Verma •What has been depicted in 'The Kerala Story' is crime against humanity and the way anti-India forces are trying to weaken the foundation of a secular state by imposing one way of thought and practices on others
Religious conversion a serious issue, shouldn't be given political colour: India's apex court
•Noting that it should not be given a political colour, the apex court sought the assistance of Attorney General R Venkataramani on a plea seeking direction to the Centre and states to take stringent steps to control fraudulent religious conversions
K'taka: Married Muslim man 'rapes' Hindu minor, blackmails her with nude pics, forces to convert
Fp Staff •The Muslim man, identified as 25-year-old Yunus Pasha, who is also accused of blackmailing the minor, has been booked under new Anti-Conversion Act and POCSO
Why Madhya Pradesh is moving SC over the law that wants to make conversion illegal
Fp Explainers •The move comes after Madhya Pradesh High Court passed an interim order stopping the government from prosecuting interfaith couples who marry without giving the district magistrate a 60-day notice — mandated under Section 10 of the MP Freedom of Religion Act (MPFRA) 2021
NCW takes cognizance of alleged conversion and extortion case in Madhya Pradesh
Fp Staff •NCW took cognizance of a viral video on Twitter alleging that a Dalit couple in Madhya Pradesh’s Damoh was converted to Christianity in exchange for money by a religious leader and his people
Final warning: Child rights body summons Amazon India head for 'funding' religious group
Fp Staff •NCPCR chairperson Priyank Kanoongo said that the child rights body had received a complaint that a percentage of profit gained out of the sale of goods through a multinational company Amazon is being given as donation to an NGO named All India Mission
Pakistan: 14-year-old Hindu girl kidnapped, converted to Islam, forcibly married to her abductor
Fp Staff •Family of the minor girl said that their teenage daughter was recently abducted from Islamkot Tharparkar Sindh Village and was converted into Islam by Samaru Pir Jan Sirhandi. She was then forcibly married to her abductor Shaukat s/o Murad Hanhrjo
With Kejriwal eyeing Gujarat polls, ‘anti-Hindu’ Rajendra Pal Gautam resigns after controversial oath
Fp Staff •"In my personal capacity, I attended the Buddhist Dhamma initiation ceremony organized by Mission Jai Bhim and Buddhist Society of India on the occasion of Ashoka Vijayadashami, being a member of the society. It had no connection with AAP....
Pakistan: Every day three minor Hindu girls are abducted, gang-raped, converted to Islam and married to their abductor
Fp Staff •Hindu rights activist Mahesh Vasu has written a letter to the Ministry of External Affairs, mentioning a detailed list of "genocide and persecution of Hindus in Pakistan duly reported by the Regional TV News in the month of September 2022"
Assam: Church pastor, among 5 held, for ‘killing, hanging’ tribal youth on refusing to convert to marry girlfriend
Abhishek Awasthi •According to the police, the pastor, his assistant and others had come to his house to force the deceased to convert to Christianity on the day of murder. They had taken away the girl, who was willingly living with the deceased as they were in love