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    1. When evangelizing turns agonizing - How to avoid the pitfalls of 'predatory proselytizing'

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      When evangelizing turns agonizing - How to avoid the pitfalls of 'predatory proselytizing'

      In April, a lecture was given at Grand Valley State University in Michigan that featured Padma Kuppa, a Hindu interfaith activist with the Hindu American Foundation. She was sharing the results of her research into “predatory proselytization,” which she defines as unethical conversion strategies. Kuppa offered examples of how this phenomenon takes place in her home country in India. One example was that Christians used public obituary information in order ...

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    5. Obituaries: The Newest Route to Convert the Living

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      Professor Anantanand Rambachan’s recent column in the Huffington Post reveals a stunning practice that I had never heard of before: strangers sending condolence letters upon the death of a loved one to try and convert grieving family members to Christianity. It is wholly inappropriate, as Prof. Rambachan writes, to try and exploit “an occasion for emotional vulnerability.”

      We at HAF consider the above to be an instance of “predatory ...

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    6. Pope Francis: Can He Heal The Chasm Between The Roman Catholic Church And Hindus?

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      The Hindu-American Foundation, or HAF, welcomed the election of the pope but cautiously called for better relations between the Vatican and non-Christian religions.

      “As a pluralistic faith, Hindus respect the papacy for its importance to Catholics and hope that the church now begins a new era of mutually respecting Dharma religions and other pluralist traditions as divinely inspired paths as well,” Pawan Deshpande, a member of the HAF Executive Council ...

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    9. UN Special Rapporteur Focuses On Right To Religious Conversion and Freedom From Forced Conversion

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      According to a UNHR press release, last week United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Heiner Bielefeldt, presented to the General Assembly a report prepared in August (full text) that focuses on the right of religious conversion, as well as the right not to be forced to convert. The report says in part:Countless reports of grave violations  of the right to freedom of religion or belief ...

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    12. Fiji Hindu group rejects Christian State call by Methodists

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      One of Fiji's main Hindu religious organisations has rejected the idea that the country ought to be an officially Christian state.

      The new President of Fiji's Methodist Church, Reverend Tuikilakila Waqairatu said yesterday on Pacific Beat that Fiji was ceded to God by the chiefs, meaning it is a Christian country.

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    13. Where Are NGO Foreign Contribution Funds Really Going in India?

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      Large amount of funds go to Christian organizations whose purpose is conversion. This act of “soul harvesting” or “planting of the Church” is an anachronistic practice of nineteenth century which is totally incongruous in the twenty first century where faith based political movements like the Church movements are disappearing from Europe their cradle of growth. Europe which has given up on the Church is trying to overcome its guilt by ...

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    14. Hindu Seva or Christian Charity? Lessons for the US and the World

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      (CHAKRA) In 1993 Christopher Hitchens exposed the myth of Mother Teresa as a caring old woman helping India ’s poor with Christian charity. Yet the myth persists that her disease infested incarceration centres are in the forefront of Christianity’s civilising mission in Hindu-majority India . Switch onto any American fundamentalist Christian programme such as the notorious CBN and its 700 Club run by Pat Robertson and you will be asked ...

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    16. Mahatma Gandhi, Mormon?

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      Mahatma Gandhi, Mormon?

      But the Gandhian existential dilemma was solved in another “act of compassion” reportedly by a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Mormons have long engaged in these proxy-baptisms of departed Jews, Hindus, and others to offer them the chance to “choose” since they were not reached--or convinced--while they lived.  Indeed, according to media reports, Gandhi joined Anne Frank and many others in the ranks of the ...

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    17. House Resolution Condemns Iran's Persecution of Religious Minorities And Sentencing of Christian Convert

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      On Thursday, by a vote of 417-1, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H. Res. 556 condemning Iran's persecution of religious minorities and calling for the release of Youcef Nadarkhani as well as all others held or charged on account of their religion. Nadarkhani is a Muslim convert to Christianity who has been sentenced to death for apostasy and refusing to recant his new faith. (See prior related ...
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    18. Religious Conversion: A form of violence.

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      Two Bhutanese refugees who have escaped religious persecution and ethnic cleansing in their own country and were finally granted asylum in the United States passed away a few days ago. I asked him what happened and he told me that they were unknowingly converted to Christianity. The Bhutanese refugees came to the United States hoping to find a land that will embrace them, protect them, and allow them to be ...

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    19. 'Church attack figures in Karnataka are exaggerated'

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      Did the controversial report on church attacks exaggerate the number of such instances in Karnataka? Were the figures put out for some ulterior motive? 

      Yes, the figures have been exaggerated, says P N Benjamin, a minorities commission member and coordinator of the Bangalore Initiative for Religious Dialogue. 

      If Karnataka is really the number one rogue state for Christians then why is it that not a single Christian has fled the ...

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    20. Canada Plans U.S.-Like Religious Freedom Office -

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      Canada Plans U.S.-Like Religious Freedom Office -
      Meanwhile, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom nearly loses its funding... According to Hindu activist Suhag Shukla, co-founder of the Hindu American Foundation, the commission not only ignores many “hot spots” of religious persecution, such as Malaysia and Syria, because Christians are not the victims there, but the whole intent of the U.S. religious-freedom laws is to enable “predatory proselytization” by Christian missionaries in countries where other ...
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    23. Indian Court Interprets Reach of Hindu Marriage Act

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      In India, the Delhi high court has issued a ruling clarifying the scope of the Hindu Marriage Act.  According to DNA, Justice Kailash Gambhir held that in order for the Act to be applicable to a divorce action, both husband and wife must have been Hindus at the time of the marriage. It is not enough that the marriage was solemnized in a Hindu ceremony if one of the spouses ...
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