Religious Conversion
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After Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh passes ‘love jihad’ bill
News | Mar 09, 2021, 07:20 AM ISTThe Madhya Pradesh assembly on Monday passed the MP Freedom of Religion Bill 2021 — the so-called ‘love jihad’ law — by voice vote amid chants.
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Himachal makes law against forced religious conversion
India | Dec 21, 2020, 01:23 PM ISTOver a year after the legislation was passed by the Himachal Pradesh Assembly, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the state has made a law to check "forcible religious conversions".
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Anti-conversion law arrest: Accused family's allegations against UP Police
India | Dec 06, 2020, 01:54 PM ISTThe family of the first youth to be arrested under Uttar Pradesh's new anti-conversion law, has alleged that the youth's father was forced by the police to sign a statement denying any use of force and harassment by the investigators.
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'Ram naam satya' journey will begin if...: Yogi's love-jihad warning over religious conversion
India | Oct 31, 2020, 08:17 PM ISTUttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during a by-poll rally on Saturday in the state said that the government will work to curb love-jihad and make a law. However, the Chief Minister also gave a warning to those indulging in love-jihad and religious conversion saying if you don't mend your ways your 'Ram naam satya' journey will begin.
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Hundreds of Pakistani Hindus, victims of bonded labour and poor, convert to Islam for jobs: Report
World | Aug 05, 2020, 09:31 PM ISTReligious persecution and forced conversion continues unabated in Pakistan as dozens of Hindu families were converted to Islam in June in the Badin district of Sindh Province in southern Pakistan, which borders with Gujarat's Kutch at its south.
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Man beaten up by Bajrang Dal workers for religious conversion in UP's Shamli
News | Apr 24, 2018, 09:50 AM ISTMan beaten up by Bajrang Dal workers for religious conversion in UP's Shamli
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BJP has stopped fringe groups on conversion issue, Kiran Bedi tells Aap Ki Adalat
National | Jan 24, 2015, 03:17 PM ISTNew Delhi: Kiran Bedi, BJP's chief ministerial candidate in Delhi, has said the party leadership has effectively stopped the fringe groups from going ahead on issues like "gharwapsi" and re-conversion issues.Replying to questions in Rajat
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Nand kishore likely to be released on Saturday
India | Jan 17, 2015, 08:03 AM ISTAgra: The controversial Hindutva leader, Nand Kishore Balimiki, Who was arrested Dec 16 for his alleged role in religious conversion in Agra, is likely to be released on Saturday, after he secured bail Friday.The district
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Rajnath Singh calls for anti-conversion law
National | Dec 27, 2014, 05:39 PM ISTLucknow: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said an anti-conversion law should be framed to check conversion and appealed all the political parties to think over it “seriously”.“I think that to check conversion, an anti-conversion
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Religious conversion should be banned: Sushil Modi
National | Dec 16, 2014, 06:35 PM ISTPatna: Amid tension in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh over scheduled ‘reconversion' programme by Hindu right outfit Dharma Jagaran Samiti, senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi today said forced conversion should be banned in the country.“We want