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Muslims in India who convert to Christianity are considered apostates and subject to harassment, intimidation, and attacks by Muslims. [289] [290] In Jammu and Kashmir, a Christian convert and missionary named Bashir Tantray was killed, allegedly by militant Islamists in 2006. [291] [unreliable source?]
Indian South Indian actress. [8] Sister Nirmala: Indian succeeded Mother Teresa as Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity in March 1997. [9] Krishna Pal: Indian first Indian convert to Baptist Christianity due to the missionary activity of William Carey; subsequently preached the gospel for 20 years. [10] Devasahayam Pillai
Non-Christians were forbidden from occupying any public office, and only a Christian could hold such an office; [22] [21] Hindus were forbidden from producing any Christian devotional objects or symbols; [22] Hindu children whose father had died were required to be handed over to the Jesuits for conversion to Christianity; [22]
The term Dalit Christian or Christian Dalit is used to describe those who have converted to Christianity from other forms of religion in the Indian subcontinent, and are still categorised as Dalits in Hindu, Christian, Muslim, and Sikh societies in South Asia.
Christian maidens of Goa meeting a Portuguese nobleman seeking a wife, circa 1540. In 1534, the Archdiocese of Goa was established. Soon missionaries of the newly founded Society of Jesus were sent to Goa, which led to the conversion of entire villages to Christianity. [6]
Daisy Irani — an Indian actress in Hindi and Telugu language films. [48] Ishoʿsabran — was a Persian Zoroastrian convert to Christianity who was martyred in the Sasanian Empire in 620 or 621. [49] Javanshir — was the prince of Caucasian Albania from 637 to 680, hailing from the region of Gardman.
The Inquisition originally targeted New Christians, that is Jews who had been force-converted to Christianity and who migrated from Portugal to India between 1505 and 1560. [1] Later it added in Moors, a term that meant Muslims who had previously invaded the Iberian peninsula from Morocco .
Nehemiah Goreh (born Nilakantha Gore; 1825—1895) was a Hindu convert to Christianity in British India.As a Hindu apologist, he wrote the Sanskrit-language text Śāstra-tattva-vinirṇaya and a Hindi-language synopsis of it, defending Hinduism against Christian missionaries.