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Name Nationality Notes Refs Alain Daniélou: French French Indologist [1]Agehananda Bharati: German German Indologist Sir John Woodroffe: British British Indologist
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.
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 ...
Christianity in Pakistan is growing fast, going from 1.27% in 2017 to 1.37% in 2023, making it one of the religions in Pakistan growing faster than Islam, alongside Hinduism. [4] Today, most Pakistani Christians live in Northern Punjab.
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.
first Indian convert to Baptist Christianity due to the missionary activity of William Carey; subsequently preached the gospel for 20 years. [10] Devasahayam Pillai: Official in the court of the King Maharaja Marthanda Varma. Beatified by Pope Benedict XVI. [11] [12] [13] Predhuman K Joseph Dhar: Kashmiri author, social worker and writer. [14 ...
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]
Within the three major Christian branches in South Asia, there were historically and are currently different levels of caste acceptance. The Protestant churches have been most consistent among the Christian community in repudiating it as part of the Hindu social order while attempting to establish a caste-less Christian community. [9]