Conversions

Bhubaneswar: Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s International President Ashok Singhal came down heavily on Congress-led UPA government for it’s soft stand on Pakistan. He said there is no point talking to Pakistan .and said India should withdraw itself from the proposed talks.

Mumbai: A number of influential Sindhi personalities have come forward to restrain the ongoing trend of conversion among fellow community members in Ulhasnagar. They have decided to start a shuddhikaran (purification) movement.

VHP today alleged that foreign funds were being used for religious conversion with Centre's knowledge.

The catastrophe has driven a wedge between Haiti's religions as Christian groups make inroads among shaken Voodoo followers — some drawn by the steady flow of aid through evangelical missions and others frightened by a disaster they saw as a warning from God.

Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Ten Americans detained last week while trying to take 33 Haitian children out of the country were charged Thursday with kidnapping children and criminal association, a government official said. Some Americans are connected with Baptist Church, Idaho.

The Chairman of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal Mr. Kamal Thapa said, "Over 1 million Hindus are converted to Christianity after Nepal was declared as Secular state." He was addressing his cadres in Bara district.

VHP national secretary Surendra Jain today alleged that terrorist activities in the country are being carried out from mosques and churches.

After a long series of tribulations, including expulsion from their home country and long nineteen years in provisory refugee camps as citizens of nowhere, Hindus originally from Bhutan are coming to America . But, unfamiliar with the new country and western ways, insecure in their new life and throughly vulnerable to being influenced, they make for easy targets for conversion to proselytizing faiths. while Hinduism Today does not take an editorial stand against conversions, they must follow ethical standards, something too seldom ignored. The article below is reprinted from the Baptist Standard Newsjournal.

Washington: The indictment of David Headley for involvement in planning the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks shows Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba too has global ambitions and is willing to undertake bold, mass-casualty operations, according to a top US counter-terrorism official.

Kochi (Kerala): Kerala High Court asked Kerala Government to continue the probe against the Muringoor Divine centre. High court directive came while hearing the petition filed by Shri Venugopal from Allapuzha seeking court intervention to complete the probe.

Christian groups have agreed to avoid aggressive evangelization methods in Karnataka.

A Brazilian missionary has been accused of religious conversion of school children by fraudulently means at Faridabad in Haryana. The parents of the children told that they were unaware of their children being adopted by the missionary.

Two Christian advocacy groups have condemned the arrest of an Australian missionary in Andhra Pradesh last week.

Tuticorin (Tamil Nadu): In Tuticorin District, a village named "Thalaivanvadali" near Aathur more than 300 men,women and children went to District Collector's office to stage demonstration against news plan to build Church in village

More than 70 per cent of the cash crop farming of Kerala is commanded by the Christian community and the Church is convinced that the State does not offer much scope for extension of this activity anymore due to non-availability of land.