No foreign missionary active in coastal Orissa: report

("Press Trust Of India, October 27, 2008)

Kendrapara, India - No foreign missionary is active in coastal pockets of Orissa's Kendrapara district nor has there been any instance of conversion during past seven years, an official report submitted to the state Home Department said here today.

An inquiry into the charges levelled by the Sangh Parivar from time to time that hundreds of Hindus lured by inducement by foreign missionaries embraced Christianity in Rajnagar and Mahakalpada tehsils found the conversion charges as unsubstantiated, official sources said.

Earlier, the local unit of RSS had alleged that more than 100 Hindus, mostly migrant Bengali-speaking natives from seaside villages of both the tehsil, embraced Christianity and missionaries adopted coercive and inductive tactics.