The All India Christian Council--an ecumenical organization that defends Christians’ religious freedom--is expressing concern about the implications of the arrest of Rev. C. M. Khanna, a Protestant pastor who baptized Muslims in Jammu and Kashmir, a largely Muslim state.
Conversion, writes John Dayal of the All India Christian Council, is not illegal in Jammu and Kashmir. Yet Khanna was arrested, at the behest of the local grand mufti, on charges of “promoting enmity between different groups” and “deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs.” [CatholicCulture.org] Read more [via National Secular Society]
