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India intensifies anti-conversion laws

India (MNN)—Across India, states are toughening up their anti-conversion laws, either adding to existing laws or passing new ones, limiting individuals’ ability to practice faiths besides Hinduism. Currently, about a dozen of India’s 28 states have anti-conversion laws, according to Greg Musselman of Voice of the Martyrs, Canada. Most of these laws have been implemented after Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) took up power within the Indian government. “It is definitely intensif