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Andhra Pradesh: Villagers pass resolutions at Gram Sabha to stop conversion activities of Christian missionaries, seek to remove an illegal church

OpIndia Staff - 17 July, 2021

The villagers of Gurujala has passed five resolutions at Gram Sabha recently to prevent Christian missionaries conversion activities in the village

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Chattisgarh: Sukhma SP puts district officials on high alert over Christian missionaries’ conversion activities in tribal areas

OpIndia Staff - 14 July, 2021

The Sukhma Superintendent of Police has sent a directive to all police stations in the district to keep an eye on the conversion activities of the Christian missionaries who often venture into tribal areas to convert Adivasis.

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My ancestors were Hindu, they converted to Islam later: Bihar Minority Affairs minister Jama Khan

OpIndia Staff - 10 July, 2021

Bihar's Minority Welfare Minister Jama Khan has said that his ancestors were Hindus from Rajasthan, who converted to Islam later.

Opinions

‘You natives, be grateful that your children died as Christians, not pagans’: American Conservative magazine tells indigenous people in Canada

Sanghamitra - 9 July, 2021

The article goes on to defend the residential school system altogether. It actually asserts that 'it was necessary to convert native people into Christianity because otherwise, "their souls could not have been saved."

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UP mass conversion: ATS arrests 6th person, NGO run by accused had received Rs 10 crore in foreign funding in 4 years

OpIndia Staff - 1 July, 2021

UP ATS in a statement has informed that Sheikh confessed to knowing Umar Gautam and diverting hawala money to Umar to fund the religious conversion activities.

Opinions

Sikhs abused for highlighting abduction and religious conversion to Islam in Kashmir, fractures appear in ‘Sikh-Muslim unity’ project

K Bhattacharjee - 27 June, 2021

Tensions are rife in Kashmir after two Sikh girls were allegedly kidnapped and converted to Islam recently.

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Mass conversion racket: Umar Gautam reveals how they targeted non-Muslim girls from rural areas as it is easier to lure, brainwash them

OpIndia Staff - 26 June, 2021

Umar Gautam told ATS that it was easier to lure village girls with money as they came from lesser privileged families

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Fatehpur: Teacher says conversion racket leaders regularly visit her school to convert Hindus, made the school teach Namaz to non-Muslim toddlers

OpIndia Staff - 24 June, 2021

Fatehpur Teacher says kindergarten students are being taught Urdu, Arabic and Namaz on instructions of conversation racket leader

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‘Yogi can get me killed too’: Poet Munawwar Rana goes on deranged rant over mass religious conversion case

OpIndia Staff - 23 June, 2021

Calling the mass conversions case a plot by Yogi Adityanath to win the upcoming state assembly elections, Rana mocked Hindus for getting converted for a small amount of money.

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Uttar Pradesh: Forced mass religious conversion accused Mohammad Umar Gautam was felicitated by AMU alumni for ‘spreading Islam’

OpIndia Staff - 22 June, 2021

Mohammad Umar Gautam and his associated at the Islamic Dawah Centre(IDC) preyed on vulnerable and poor people, those with listening and speaking disabilities, and converted them to Islam

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