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Press Release
VISHVA HINDU PARISHAD (VHP) International President, Shri Ashok Singhal has strongly objected to the Pope's interference in the religious matters of Bharat (India). Shri Singhal said: "THE RIGHT TO UPHOLD ANCESTRAL FAITH" should be a 'Fundamental Right' for inter-religious harmony because if everybody accepts right to uphold ancestral faith, nobody would convert people of other faiths. There won't be inter-religious conflict.
When the Pope expressed the right to convert as a fundamental right and objected to the Rajasthan Anti-conversion Law, he insulted the Indian apex Court - the Supreme Court of India - that gave a historical judgment in 1977 on the subject. A Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court of India gave a judgment that as per Article 25 of the Constitution of India, NOBODY HAD THE "RIGHT TO CONVERT". So, "conversion" is since an anti-Constitutional activity and it is the duty of a State to enact a law to stop conversion (Anti-Constitutional Activity).
The Vatican is a sovereign State. Can anybody else propagate and convert a Christian in the Vatican? If the Pope cannot allow the conversion of a Christian in the Vatican, how can he expect conversion of Hindus in Bharat (India)?
The Pope must appreciate that both Christians and Hindus are facing the same historical threat of Jihad, i.e., global terrorism that is evident from the destruction of the Kashi, Ayodhya, Mathura, Somnath temples in India, the crusades under the Pope to defend Christianity in Europe, and now the 9/11 attacks on the WTC (World Trade Center), the London Metros and Madrid &c, and daily fatal attacks on Hindus in Jammu & Kashmir in India.
The Vishva Hindu Parishad appealed to the Pope that, "it would be better that instead of fighting each other, LET US FIGHT AGAINST JIHAD, and the Pope should declare that the Church would not convert a single Hindu."
- Released by VHP, New Delhi, India.
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