{"id":1215,"date":"2016-02-09T22:35:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T22:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=1212&amp;preview_id=1212"},"modified":"2016-02-09T22:35:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T22:35:45","slug":"149-villagers-return-to-hindu-fold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=1215","title":{"rendered":"149 Villagers Return to Hindu Fold &#8211; The New Indian Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>LAHUNIPARA (SUNDARGARH):As many as 149 villagers of 35 families on Sunday returned to Hindu fold from Christianity at a home-coming ceremony organised by Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Viswakalyan Dharma Yagya Samiti at the remote Bileipara village of Lahunipara block in Sundargarh district.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said following \u2018Vedic&#8217; rituals the families converted to Hindu religion.<\/p>\n<p>Among others, VHP National Secretary Dharma Narayan Sharma, senior VHP leaders Achutyanand Kar and Bishamvar Mishra and VHP&#8217;s Bonai unit president Chudamani Mahanta were present.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHUNIPARA (SUNDARGARH):As many as 149 villagers of 35 families on Sunday returned to Hindu fold from Christianity at a home-coming ceremony organised by Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Viswakalyan Dharma Yagya Samiti at the remote Bileipara village of Lahunipara block in Sundargarh district. Sources said following \u2018Vedic&#8217; rituals the families converted to Hindu religion. Among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1153,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}