{"id":7181,"date":"2008-11-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/11\/01\/in-orissa-a-law-for-conversions-that-no-one-follows-httpwwwexpressbuzzcomeditionstoryaspxtitle42000convertedonlytwofollowedlawofbmwrulcl0mvkkt3vj5zamvkkt3vj5zanufeeobkukwkandhamal20orissa20christi\/"},"modified":"2008-11-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T12:00:00","slug":"in-orissa-a-law-for-conversions-that-no-one-follows-httpwwwexpressbuzzcomeditionstoryaspxtitle42000convertedonlytwofollowedlawofbmwrulcl0mvkkt3vj5zamvkkt3vj5zanufeeobkukwkandhamal20orissa20christi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/11\/01\/in-orissa-a-law-for-conversions-that-no-one-follows-httpwwwexpressbuzzcomeditionstoryaspxtitle42000convertedonlytwofollowedlawofbmwrulcl0mvkkt3vj5zamvkkt3vj5zanufeeobkukwkandhamal20orissa20christi\/","title":{"rendered":"In Orissa, A Law For Conversions That No One Follows http:\/\/www.expressbuzz.com\/edition\/story.aspx?Title=42,000+converted,+only+two+followed+law=OFBmwRuLcl0==mvKkT3vj5ZA==mvKkT3vj5ZA==nUFeEOBkuKw==Kandhamal,%20Orissa,%20Christian,%20attacks,%20church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>p class=&#8221;source&#8221;\/p<br \/>\np class=&#8221;summary&#8221;br \/The 2001 census showed Kandhamal with a Christian population of 117,950, up from 75,597 a decade earlier. According to District Collector Krishnan Kumar, &#8220;The Christian growth rate in the district is 66% as against 18.6% for the overall population growth in the district.&#8221;br \/br \/Kumar said that the Orissa Freedom of Religion Act, which took effect in 1989, allows people to change or adopt any religion, but all such individuals must submit a form to the district magistrate. &#8220;We have received just two applications, not just between 1991 and 2001 but between 1989 and 2008. We must understand that every one must follow law,&#8221; Kumar explained.br \/br \/The Kandhamal region has seen conflicts following the murder of a Hindu swami and four of his aides.\/phr \/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>p class=&#8221;source&#8221;\/p p class=&#8221;summary&#8221;br \/The 2001 census showed Kandhamal with a Christian population of 117,950, up from 75,597 a decade,&#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-7181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7181","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=7181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}