Forced conversions continue in Orissa

http://www.religiousintelligence.co.uk/news/?NewsID=3908

[Religious Intelligence] 19 Feb 2009--In the wake of anti-Christian violence in Orissa state last year, hard-line Hindus in Kandhamal district have forced nearly half of 40 Christian families in one village to convert under threat of death, area Christians said.

According to Compass News Direct, Bareka village resident Goliath Digal, 58, said that the Hindu hardliners have taken 18 Roman Catholic families to a Hindu temple and performed Hindu rituals on them, forcing them to sign statements that they had converted of their own will.