{"id":4871,"date":"2014-08-06T12:18:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T19:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4871"},"modified":"2014-08-06T12:18:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T19:18:07","slug":"india-non-hindu-religious-activity-banned-in-more-than-50-villages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4871","title":{"rendered":"INDIA: Non-Hindu Religious Activity Banned in More than 50 Villages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/morningstarnews.org\/\">Morning Star News<\/a>, July 21, 2014<\/p>\n<p>Church leaders in India have asked national and Chhattisgarh state officials to reverse a ban on non-Hindu religious activity that more than 50 villages have reportedly adopted.<\/p>\n<p>The resolutions were passed under the pretext of stopping alleged forcible conversions of Hindus. Belar village banned all non-Hindu activities in a council meeting on July 6, after about a dozen villages adopted a similar resolution in Sirisguda village on May 10 that included a ban on non-Hindu missionaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo stop the forced conversion by some outsiders religious campaigners and to prevent them from using derogatory language against Hindu deities and customs, the Sirisguda Gram Sabha [Village Council] bans religious activities such as prayers, meetings and propaganda of non-Hindu religions,\u201d the resolution states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis resolution goes against the ethos of the constitution, which guarantees to everyone the right to equality and freedom of religion,\u201d said attorney Tehmina Arora of religious rights group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) of India.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/morningstarnews.org\/2014\/07\/non-hindu-religious-activity-banned-in-area-of-chhattisgarh-india\/\">Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb See also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldwatchmonitor.org\/2014\/07\/article_3222907.html\/\">Indian Villages Outlaw Christian Practices<\/a> (World Watch Monitor).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Morning Star News, July 21, 2014 Church leaders in India have asked national and Chhattisgarh state officials to reverse a ban on non-Hindu religious activity that more than 50 villages have reportedly adopted. The resolutions were passed under the pretext of stopping alleged forcible conversions of Hindus. Belar village banned all non-Hindu activities in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4871\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">INDIA: Non-Hindu Religious Activity Banned in More than 50 Villages<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4872,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871\/revisions\/4872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}