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Mar 12, 2021 contributor
In a file photo, demonstrators shout slogans as they hold placards during a protest outside Sacred Heart Cathedral in New Delhi Feb. 5, 2015. (Credit: Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters via CNS.)
India’s state Madhya Pradesh has passed a so-called “Freedom of Religion” bill, which increases the penalties for illegal inducements to change a person’s religion.
MUMBAI, India – India’s state Madhya Pradesh has passed a so-called “Freedom of Religion” bill, which increases the penalties for illegal inducements to change a person’s religion.
The bill was passed on a voice vote by the state assembly on March 8, in a move supporters called a “gift for women” on International Women’s Day.
Feb 26, 2021 contributor
In a file photo, a religious sister takes Communion from a priest at a Church in Gauhati, India, Monday, Dec. 25, 2017. (Credit: Anupam Nath/AP.)
A “false conversion” case involving a Hindu former teacher at a Catholic school in India is “unjust,” according to the Metropolitan archbishop.
MUMBAI, India – A “false conversion” case involving a Hindu former teacher at a Catholic school in India is “unjust,” according to the Metropolitan archbishop.
Sister Bhagya, the principal of Sacred Heart Convent School in Khajuraho, in Madhya Pradesh state, was accused by Mrs. Ruby Singh of trying to force her to become a Christian.
Feb 6, 2021 contributor
In this Tuesday, May 14, 2019 file photo, supporters of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) walk with a giant party flag during an election campaign rally in Kolkata, India. (Credit: Bikas Das/AP.)
A Catholic priest in India has called the arrest of nine Christians for “attempted conversion” a “travesty of justice.”
MUMBAI, India – A Catholic priest in India has called the arrest of nine Christians for “attempted conversion” a “travesty of justice.”
The Christians were arrested on Jan. 27 in the city of Indore, a day after a mob of Hindu militants invaded a Pentecostal prayer meeting taking place at the Satprakashan Sanchar Kendra (Center for the Light of Truth), a media center owned by the Society of the Divine Word, a Catholic religious order that lets other Christian groups use the premises.
Jan 27, 2021 contributor
In a file photo, a woman holds a cross during a May 3. 2017 protest in Mumbai, India. (Credit: Shailesh Andrade/Reuters via CNS.)
Accusations that a group of Pentecostal Christians in India were engaged in proselytism are “fabricated and baseless,” according to a Catholic archbishop.
MUMBAI, India – Accusations that a group of Pentecostal Christians in India were engaged in proselytism are “fabricated and baseless,” according to a Catholic archbishop.
The incident took place on Jan. 26, when a group of Hindu extremists barged into the meeting in Indore, a city in the state of Madhya Pradesh.
The meeting was taking place at Satprakashan Sanchar Kendra (Center for the Light of Truth), a media center owned by the Society of the Divine Word, a Catholic religious order that lets other Christian groups use the premises.