Posts Tagged ‘conversions’

Pakistan Told to Address Forced Marriages, Conversions of Girls

Laiba Suhail was kidnapped in Faisalabad District, Pakistan on Feb. 12, 2024. (Courtesy of family) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – U.N. human rights experts on Thursday (April 11) called on Pakistan to make legal changes in light of continued vulnerability of women and girls of minority faiths to forced marriages and religious conversions. […]

Urban Revival Stalls As Office-to-Apartment Conversions Face Financial Fiasco

Urban Revival Stalls As Office-to-Apartment Conversions Face Financial Fiasco Transforming vacant office buildings into apartments was supposed to solve so many problems, however the reality of doing so has been anything but straightforward. This 1989 building near the White House was once occupied by the Department of Justice. Photograph by Evy Mages In 2022, less […]

Israeli High Court decision on conversions brings long-awaited relief and validation

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Landmark decision recognizing non-Orthodox conversions performed in Israel sparks fierce debate

Browse > Home / News / Landmark decision recognizing non-Orthodox conversions performed in Israel sparks fierce debate March 3, 2021 by Israel Kasnett – JNS.org Read on for article Israel’s Supreme Court handed down a bombshell decision on Monday recognizing Reform and Conservative conversions for those seeking to obtain citizenship. The result has caused an […]

High Court Recognises Reform, Conservative Conversions Carried Out In Israel

The High Court of Justice ruled Monday that people who convert to Judaism in Israel through the Reform and Conservative movements must be recognised as Jews for the purpose of the Law of Return, and are thus entitled to Israeli citizenship. The bombshell decision, which shatters the longstanding Orthodox monopoly on officially recognised conversions in […]

Love Jihad, Conversions and Laws curbing Freedoms

Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance 2020, passed by UP on 27th November 2020, has set the ball rolling at two levels. On one hand many other BJP ruled states like MP and Haryana are activating their machinery to bring in similar law in their states and on the other at social […]

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