Pastor Dominic with his wife Joan D’Souza.
Religious conversion cases in Goa: What the record shows
PANAJIGovernment data placed before the Goa Legislative Assembly in March 2026 shows that four cases relating to alleged illegal religious conversion or attempts were registered between 2021 and 2025. Two cases were recorded in 2022 and two in 2023, while no such cases were registered in 2021, 2024 or 2025.The fi
ANTI-CONVERSION BILL: THE POLL PLAY
The Goa government’s decision to bring an anti-conversion law has opened a political debate that goes far beyond the proposed legislation. With no apparent groundswell of public demand for such a law, its timing, ideological context and potential electoral consequences have come under scrutiny. As Goa heads towards another Assembly election, the Bill has raised a larger question: is it addressing a genuine problem, or creating a new political fault line?
