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Discussion on Conversion Jihad amounts to Islamophobia? NBDSA orders NewsNation to take down their show discussing the menace: Details

OpIndia Staff - 26 November, 2021

On November 6th, NBDSA received a complaint regarding the 'Conversion Jihad' show aired by News Nation and it pronounced its order on 15th

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6,754 women abducted in first half of 2021 in Pakistan’s Punjab province, 1,000 Hindu and Christian women converted to Islam every year

OpIndia Staff - 19 November, 2021

Human Rights activist said over 1,000 girls belonging to Hindu, Christian communities are converted to Islam every year in Pakistan

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‘There is no such thing as Hinduism’: How over 100 tribals in Bharuch were converted to Islam and the ‘business’ behind it

Nirwa Mehta - 16 November, 2021

An FIR filed in the Amod Police station in Bharuch names 9 people who are accused in running a forced religious conversion racket.

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Kerala: Two teenaged Hindu girls go missing with their classmates, Arshad and Afzal, police initiates investigation

OpIndia Staff - 8 November, 2021

The 14-year-old twin sisters Shreya and Shreja were seen boarding a bus to Tamil Nadu with their classmates Arshad and Afzal of same age.

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Jains in Karnataka’s Belagavi take out protest march against religious conversions, urge state govt to pass anti-conversion law

OpIndia Staff - 22 October, 2021

Jain organisations in Belagavi have urged the Karnataka state government to introduce an anti-conversion law to stop rampant religious conversions.

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Karnataka: Pastor Somu allegedly tries to convert Vishvanath, he files complaint instead, what happened next will blow your mind

OpIndia Staff - 18 October, 2021

Members of Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad sang bhajans inside a makeshift church in the Hubbali area in Karnataka.

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Karnataka: Govt to survey official and non-official Christian missionaries, takes first step to curb illegal conversions

OpIndia Staff - 15 October, 2021

BJP MLA Goolihatti Shekhar who was in news recently for raising the issue of rampant conversions in the assembly said that 40 per cent of the churches operating in the state are not officially recognised.

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Punjab Christian missionaries menace: Concerns raised over how Dalit Sikhs are lured to Christianity and their lack of representation in Sikh body

OpIndia Staff - 13 October, 2021

Dalits and Minorities Organisation Punjab head Dr Kashmir Singh opined that to counter the menace of missionaries in the Dalit Sikh community, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) should include the Dalit community.

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Missionary Menace: SGPC launches drive in Punjab to counter evangelism, 50 detained in UP for mass conversions

OpIndia Staff - 11 October, 2021

The apex Sikh body have been receiving flak from within the community for not doing enough to “protect” the religion against rampant conversions by Christian Missionaries.

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