Indian government
struggling to find sustainable strategies to hinder the conversion of the nationals
to Christianity; parliamentarian Goolihatti Shekar his mother had to ask permission
to become Christian.
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| Goolihatti Shekar behind the Bharatiya Janata Party in February 2018 |
The Indian government says they are facing challenges of nationals who have continued to become Christians, forsaking the state-orchestrated Hinduism which is regarded as the state religion.
India’s
regime party parliamentarian Goolihatti Shekar showed great concern
for his mother who became Christian “without informing him” and then changed
her phone’s ring tone to a hymn.
“Shekar
raised the issue of religious conversions. According to him, his mother was
converted without his knowledge” Times Now reported Yesterday Thursday 14th October
2021 about a meeting convened by Karnataka state authorities, parliamentarians, local
government, opinion leaders, and many more on Wednesday.
Shekar represents Hosadurga in
parliament and belongs to the ruling party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
and is one of the stronghold pioneers of India’s plan to hinder religious
conversion and bring back Christians to Hinduism through benefits and defeats.
During
the meeting, Shekar sadly reported that his “mother won't let anyone
worship Hindu gods in her house, and even changed the ringtone of her cell
phone to Christian prayers”, a great concern to this man of honour.
The
meeting decided to survey all Christians to know who is preaching where for
easy monitoring of “the rampant religious conversion” and to withdraw state
facilities from Christians and those who convert to Christianity, according to
Times Now.
While religion is a conviction that one freely shares with a neighbour or friend, Indian authorities make it hard for this door-to-door preaching.
The US Commission of International Religious Freedom, in their 2021 annual report, ranked India the fourth after Burma (Myanmar), China and Eritrea in the row of countries of particular with limited religious freedom.
“The government, led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), promoted Hindu nationalist policies resulting in systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom,” the report said citing laws that target individuals who don’t practice Hinduism even barring them from marrying.
“In late 2020, Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, passed an ordinance avoiding any marriage conducted for the “sole purpose of unlawful conversion or vice-versa,” the report says.
The Open Door, the oganisation that tracks religious freedom, in their recent report ranked India in the top ten countries whose regimes oppress religious freedom using religious nationalism to label those who are not reverent to Hinduism as enemies of the state.
“Christians are accused of following a foreign faith and often physically attacked. If they don’t re-convert, their community may boycott them, with a devastating effect on their ability to earn income and buy food” the report says.
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