Hindu mobs to Christians: Convert or die
A campaign of forced conversions to Hinduism is taking place in Orissa state, India, following months of anti-Christian persecution and violence.
Hundreds of Christians in the Indian state of Orissa have been forced to renounce their religion and become Hindus after lynch mobs issued them with a stark ultimatum: convert or die.
The wave of forced conversions marks a dramatic escalation in a two-month orgy of sectarian violence which has left at least 59 people dead, 50,000 homeless and thousands of houses and churches burnt to the ground. As neighbour has turned on neighbour, thousands more Christians have sought sanctuary in refugee camps, unable to return to the wreckage of their homes unless they, too, agree to abandon their faith.
Members of the influential Hindu nationalist pressure group Vishva Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council) have apparently approved the conversion offensive.
Ironically, as Hindu extremists are forcing Christians to convert to Hinduism, another Hindu nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is demanding a blanket prohibition of all religious conversions.
Meanwhile, The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Orissa, Raphael Cheenath, states that he has no faith in the two judges appointed to head the commission of inquiry into the anti-Christian violence. He says the judges were chosen and the commission established without consulting local Christians.
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