Investigation reveals that missionary activities have accelerated in past few months
Lucknow : It seems conversion is flavor of the season. Uttar Pradesh police says that as many as 70 Hindus were converted to Christianity by a missionary outfit – India Hope Center, reports IANS. A suspect from the outfit has been arrested.
A district official said office bearers of the outfit are active in the Kamalpuri village and that they were trying to allure villagers into accepting Christianity.
“We have sent officials to the village and are trying to ascertain the veracity of the charges”, District Magistrate Satyendra Kumar said, adding that the administration was vigilant about such issues. Intelligence officials, however, said the India Hope Center activities “had picked up in the area” for the past few months, especially after the floods.
“They had distributed relief material to the villagers and it is feared that in lieu of this they tried to allure the villagers into embracing Christianity”, a police official said.
Police said they are looking for the India Hope Center head. According to sources, the ‘baptism’ of villagers Lallan, Bhaniram, Amarjeet, Happy, Shyamlal, Jawahar Lal, Benchan Prasad and many others was done by Bishop Mahendra Kumar.
The converts were also seen wearing crosses, but they have now gone underground for fear of police, a local said. Meanwhile, the BJP demanded a thorough probe into the episode.
“It is amazing and disturbing that the chief minister is mum on this issue while he does not miss any chance to score political points when the issue is about Muslims being converted to Hinduism”, said Vijaya Bahadur Pathak, state spokesman of the BJP.
Kumar said Thursday that it has not been confirmed if the conversions took place.
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Converted Christians ‘return home’
Patna: Three of the dozen Hindus who converted to Christianity in two Bihar villages have returned to the Hindu fold after they were threatened with a social boycott, IANS reports. Nearly a dozen poor Hindus, including women, were converted to Christianity at Barohiya village and Gangaldeh villages in Bhagalpur district, early this wee
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