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[45] [46] The All India Conference of Indian Christians and the All India Catholic Union formed a working committee with M. Rahnasamy of Andhra University serving as president and B.L. Rallia Ram of Lahore serving as general secretary; in its meeting on 16 April 1947 and 17 April 1947, the joint committee prepared a 13-point memorandum that was ...
The punishment for forced conversion was reduced to one to five years [15] from the earlier 10 years. Marriage involving religious conversion is illegal. [ 5 ] If conversion involves a minor, woman or a member of scheduled caste or scheduled tribe, the imprisonment is two to seven years.
Names have to be approved by the local registration office, called Standesamt, which generally consults a list of first names and foreign embassies for foreign names. The name cannot be a last name or a product, and it cannot negatively affect the child. If the name submitted is denied, it can be appealed; otherwise a new name has to be submitted.
The 2021 anti-Christian violence in Karnataka refers to the series violence against Christians by right wing Hindutva groups in the Indian state of Karnataka in 2021. The attacks increased after September 2021 when leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) declared of an " anti-conversion bill " in the state to check religious conversions .
In the ensuing years, they were denounced in anti-Christian propaganda and they were targeted for violence by Hindu nationalist groups which wanted to prevent tribal voters and lower-caste voters from converting to Christianity. [5] In March 1998, the BJP started its rule of India and anti-Christian violence dramatically increased. [1] [7] [8]
The law makes religious conversion non-bailable with up to 10 years of jail time if undertaken through misinformation, unlawfully, forcefully, allurement or other allegedly fraudulent means. The law also requires that religious conversions for marriage in Uttar Pradesh has to be approved by a district magistrate. The law also encompasses strict ...
Name Nationality Notes Refs Alain Daniélou: French French Indologist [1] Agehananda Bharati: German German Indologist Sir John Woodroffe: British British Indologist François Gautier: French Political writer, journalist and Hindutva proponent [2] David Frawley: American Writer, Ayurveda practitioner, astrologer and Hindutva proponent George ...
The Church of the East was the earliest form of Christianity in India, as adopted by the St Thomas Christians of the Malabar region (present-day Kerala) from at least the third century, and possibly much earlier.