India: law repeal helpful
Christian groups welcomed a surprise announcement by a nationalist chief minister of a state in north-east India that he will ensure that a law preventing conversions from one faith to another is repealed, it was reported in July.
World Watch Monitor
Pema Khandu, a Buddhist and chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh, told an audience that he would have the 1978 Freedom of Religion Act repealed in the next session of the Legislative Assembly.
