Organised by the National Council of Churches in India (NCCI), a consultation [sic] (or conference) next week is scheduled to bring together leaders cutting across religious lines to study the outcome of anti-conversion laws that have been implemented in at least six (Indian) states.
The Dec. 13-14 meeting "will build opinion of different religions on freedom of religion and anti-conversion laws," said Anjna Masih, secretary of the Commission on Policy, Governance and Public Witness (COP), NCCI.
"The Constitution of India under Article 25 has granted freedom to confess, practice and propagate religion of one’s choice to its citizens. Thus voluntary conversion to any religion is a fundamental right," she said.
However, she rues that there is now "blind secularism in the country" and "anyone speaking about one particular religion is branded as a ‘fundamentalist’."
"The younger generation is interested in religious pluralism and we as a civil society need to come forward to enforce religious pluralism in India."
The consultation will be on the theme "Anti Conversion Law - A threat to Secularism."
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