Author: Angana Chakrabarti

Angana Chakrabarti is a Reporting Fellow at Global Press. Her work has appeared in Al Jazeera, The Reporters’ Collective, Mongabay, FiftyTwo, Frontline and Outlook. She was the principal correspondent covering the Northeast at India’s largest online news site The Print.

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India’s Christians Fear New Ban On Religious Conversions

A youth member of a church in northeastern India speaks during a session about the state’s Freedom of Religion Act (APFRA). Community forums like these have become more common amid a growing debate over the law’s implications for religious minorities.

Christians say the dormant law, first passed in the 1970s, targets their faith. Those trying to revive it say it is essential for preservation of indigenous faiths and culture.

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