Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 March 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence
Report on Persecution of Christians in India: Church in Chains
9:40 am
Mr. Baiju George:
The anti-conversion Bill was recently introduced in India. Eight states have already passed it. It is not only about conversion to Christianity but conversion to any religion but it is being targeted only at conversion to the Christian organisation. This is ghar wapsi, which is the reconversion of a person to his or her original religion. They are forcefully going into villages and asking the people to convert back to Hinduism because Hindu is the religion of India. As I said, the anti-conversion Bill is targeted only at Christians. Christian gatherings in a small hut or village are not permitted because the view is that the purpose of such gatherings is to convert people. The word "conversion" is being used to incite accusations against the Christians.
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