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Friday, August 04, 2006
More Anti-Conversion Legislation In India
The battle over anti-conversion laws in India goes on. Now the Chhattisgarh state legislature has voted to enact a law requiring official approval for any religious conversion. However, in order to facilitate the reconversion of Christians to Hinduism, the bill provides that "returning to one's forefather's religion or his original religion will not be treated as conversion." BBC News today reports that Christian groups are reacting strongly against the bill and hope to persuade the governor to refuse to sign it. (See prior related posting.)