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This is a list of converts to Hinduism from Christianity. List. Name Nationality Notes Refs Alain Daniélou: French French Indologist [1] Agehananda Bharati:
Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert) (1931–2019) – syncretist, and follower of the Hindu deity Hanuman.Professor of psychology at Harvard University. [6]Tamal Krishna Goswami (born Thomas G. Herzig) (1946–2002) – governing body commissioner of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
Protest against forced conversion of Hindu girls conducted by Pakistan Hindu Council. In Pakistan, it is estimated that several hundred people belonging to the minority Hindu, Christian, and Sikh communities are kidnapped and forcefully converted or coerced through societal pressures to convert to Islam each year. [1] [2]
Pakistani Punjab is now over 2% Christian, with very few Hindus and Sikhs left. Christians have made some contributions to the Pakistani national life. Pakistan's first non-Muslim Chief Justice of Pakistan Supreme Court was Justice A. R. Cornelius. Pakistani Christians also distinguished themselves as great fighter pilots in the Pakistan Air Force.
The Pakistan Hindu Panchayat, Pakistan Hindu Council, Pakistan Hindu Youth Council [146] and the Pakistani Hindu Welfare Association are the primary civic organizations that represent and organise Hindu communities on social, economic, religious and political issues in most of the country, with the exception of the Shiv Temple Society of Hazara ...
The former are generally converts to Christianity from low-caste Hindus and the latter from upper-caste Hindus as well as Muslims. Anglo-Indians and Goans immediately faced discrimination in jobs and business opportunities in the newly created Pakistan.
Many Hindu girls living in Pakistan are kidnapped, forcibly converted and married to Muslims. [60] According to the National Commission of Justice and Peace and the Pakistan Hindu Council (PHC) around 1000 Christian and Hindu minority women are converted to Islam and then forcibly married off to their abductors or rapists.
Punjabi Christians are traditionally divided into various castes, [5] and are largely descendants of Hindus who converted to Christianity during the British Raj in colonial India. [ 6 ] Today, the Punjabi Christians reside in the Punjab region , which includes the countries of Pakistan and India; they are almost equally divided between ...