India, Sept. 29 -- Of late, various Church journals have been dwelling on Anti-Conversion Laws (currently prevalent in 12 Indian states) in view of the latest hearing in the Supreme Court of India on September 16, 2025, after a hiatus of two and a half years.

It is worth noting that there is no national or central anti-conversion law in India. To circumvent this, 12 state governments have enacted their own anti-conversion laws, whereas there is no such law in the eight Union Territories!

Euphemistically referred to as "Freedom of Religion Acts," these laws are designed to prevent or prohibit conversion from one religion to another - specifically from Hinduism (79.80%) to Christianity (2.3%) or Islam (14.2%), as per the 2011 census.

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