Title: Re: [Assam] [christiancouncil] Silicon India: VHP "reconve
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VHP reconverts 342
people to
Hinduism
Silicon
India
Monday, April 10,
2006
Now how this is
possible if conversion is banned?
RB
converted back to Hinduism -- done openly under
the auspices of Shankaracharya of Puri.
I think someone was saying that Hindus
do not accept converts - here the most traditional of Shankaracharyas is
welcoming converts into Hindu faith.
Any comments?
Umesh
"Khalid
Azam"@yahoo.com wrote:
VHP reconverts 342 people to
Hinduism
Silicon
India
Monday, April 10,
2006
http://www.siliconindia.com/shownewsdata.asp?newsno=31561&newscat=Top
CHAKAPAD: Amidst cries of Jai Shri Ram and blowing of conch shells, 342
persons, said to be Christians, were reconverted to Hinduism at a huge
congregation organized in Chakapad by the Sangh parivar even as the VHP
called for a total ban on conversion in the country.
The
reconversion ceremony was conducted on the second day of the 'Hindu
Mahasabha' where VHP bigwigs made fiery speeches. The reconverted persons,
who belonged to 74 families, were blessed by the Sankaracharya of Puri,
Swami Nischalananda Saraswati.
Speaking on the occasion, VHP
International President Ashok Singhal demanded that the Center should
enact a law to completely ban conversions from Hinduism.
However,
there should not be any restriction on Christians if they wanted to return
to their 'mother faith of Hinduism', he said while refusing to acknowledge
as conversion the return of the people to Hinduism from
Christianity.
Preachers of the Christian faith should be thrown out
of the country, the VHP leader demanded. "There is no need for anyone to
teach religion to the people of this country as Indians are religious
anyway," he said.
As per the provisions of the Orissa Freedom of
Religion Act (OFRA), anyone desiring to change his religious faith would
have to inform the administration beforehand.
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