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Man held for allegedly forcibly converting wife, family in Uttar Pradesh's
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Fatehpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], June 30 (ANI): A person has been arrested by Khakhreru Police in Fatehpur district of Uttar Pradesh for allegedly forcibly making his wife and his family members convert to another religion.
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UP religious conversion case: Delhi HC to hear girl's plea seeking protect
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 30 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Thursday will hear the plea of a girl, who converted her religion from Hinduism to Islam, seeking protection of her life.
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UP woman moves Delhi HC seeking protection, claims life threats after will
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New Delhi [India], June 29 (ANI): A woman who converted from Hinduism to Islam has approached Delhi High Court seeking protection for herself and her family.
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Muslim cleric condemns forced interfaith marriage of Sikh girls in J-K, ur
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Jammu (Jamu and Kashmir) [India], June 28 (ANI): A day after Sikh community leaders alleged that two Sikh girls were abducted on gunpoint, forced to marry elderly men from a different religion and convert their religion in Srinagar, the Imam, Markazi Jamia Masjid, Jammu has called for an
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Gujarat police registers first case under Freedom of Religion Amendment Ac
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Vadodara (Gujarat) [India], June 19 (ANI): Gujarat police have registered the first case under the Gujarat Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Act 2021 less than four days after it came into force, and arrested one person.
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Devotees in J-K's Anantnag celebrate annual Urs festival
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Anantnag (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], June 15 (ANI): Devotees in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district and its adjoining areas on Monday celebrated the 456th annual 'Urs' or the festival of the famous Sufi saint Hazrat Baba Hyder Reshi also known as Resh moul sahib.
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3 arrested under UP's anti-conversion law in Rampur
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Rampur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], June 14 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Police on Sunday arrested three people under the anti-conversion law of Uttar Pradesh for allegedly doing religious conversion of a woman.
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Relating disease with religion is inhuman, unconstitutional: Indresh Kumar
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New Delhi [India], June 3 (ANI): Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) ideologue Indresh Kumar on Wednesday said that connecting a disease with religion is inhuman and unconstitutional.
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Pak's political structure impacted by TLP's rising radicalism: Report
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 24 (ANI): Although religion has yet to play a dominant role in Pakistani politics, observers note that the country's current political structure may be changing with the rapid rise of the proscribed radical group - Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP).
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China seeks to 'Sinicise' Tibetan religion, calls for crackdown on 'separa
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Lhasa [Tibet], May 23 (ANI): Despite international condemnation over human rights violations by Beijing in Tibet, the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) top official in Lhasa called for greater stress on Chinese elements in religion and a crackdown on 'separatism' in the region.
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China continued to restrict activities, personal freedom of religious adhe
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 13 (ANI): The Chinese government in 2020 continued to assert control over religion and restrict the activities and personal freedom of religious adherents that it perceived as threatening state or Chinese Communist Party (CCP) interests, according to the US 2020 report o
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Tibet, China's pioneer in social control
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 10 (ANI): As much as China is trying to silence critics and hide its pogroms against Uyghurs in Xinjiang, more and more is being exposed of its horrendous human rights abuses there. Unfortunately, China will not settle for just exorcising Uyghur culture, as other minority grou
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