03 November 2005
Royal Mail's refusal to withdraw a controversial stamp that allegedly insults Hinduism has prompted new ways of protest - Hindu... Read more
Topic: conversions
25 July 2005
Cinemas in a town in Gujarat state have begun screening a public service announcement challenging religious conversion. The infomercial suggesting... Read more
21 October 2004
Azlina Jailani, who adopted the name Lina Joy when she became a Christian in 1998, has appealed a second time... Read more
17 December 2003
Encouraged by the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) victory in the assembly poll, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has launched a... Read more
30 October 2003
Over 70 Hindus have embraced Buddhism at the Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya, the birthplace of the global religion of... Read more
21 October 2003
The issue of religious conversions is snowballing in Sri Lanka, with an NGO asking the government to probe a spate... Read more
05 October 2003
About 5,000 Dalits, or members of socially underprivileged classes, converted from Hinduism to Buddhism in the cultural capital of Gujarat,... Read more
19 May 2003
Alarmed by missionary activities and the reported mass conversion of Dalits to Christianity in Bihar, some rightwing Hindu groups have... Read more
13 May 2003
A large number of Dalits, who form the lowest rung of Hinduism's social ladder, are embracing Buddhism across Haryana in... Read more