{"id":13808,"date":"2014-09-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/09\/28\/rss-spending-82000-to-re-convert-1000-families-to-hinduism-every-month\/"},"modified":"2014-09-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T12:00:00","slug":"rss-spending-82000-to-re-convert-1000-families-to-hinduism-every-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/09\/28\/rss-spending-82000-to-re-convert-1000-families-to-hinduism-every-month\/","title":{"rendered":"RSS Spending $82,000 to &#8216;Re-Convert&#8217; 1,000 Families to Hinduism Every Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daily.bhaskar.com\/news\/NAT-TOP-rss-spending-rs-4751444-NOR.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LUCKNOW, INDIA, September 20, 2014 (Bhaskar News): Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is spending close to US$82,000 every month to &#8216;re-convert 1,000 people to the Hindu religion. The organisation is spending close to $13,000 to $16,500 in Western UP alone as part of its Dharam Jagaran campaign. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It takes an expense of $82 to re-convert a single family. A team of 100 workers is working round the clock and spreading awareness among the people about the pitfalls of religious conversion,&#8221; said Dharam Jagaran&#8217;s Western UP in-charge Rajeshwar Singh. These family members are then counselled by volunteers for re-conversion to Hinduism.<\/p>\n<p>[For comparision, a 1989 Hinduism Today article, &#8220;The Big Business of Evangelizing,&#8221; (https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/modules\/smartsection\/item.php?itemid=598) estimated from Christian reports that the cost of converting 177,000 Hindus over a period of ten years, from 1970 to 1980, was US$100 million, or almost $6,000 each.] <\/p>\n<p>A volunteer from Shahjahanpur explained that once a family gets ready for re-conversion, the volunteers bear the expenses of their affidavit and other paperwork. A shudhi-yagya (purification ritual) is performed once the initial paperwork is complete. A public function is organised to ensure the re-converted family is accepted into the society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source LUCKNOW, INDIA, September 20, 2014 (Bhaskar News): Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is spending close to US$82,000 every month to,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}