Summary: OpIndia, in a report by Shraddha Pandey, says the scam-accused Archbishop of Bengaluru Peter Machado urged the Karnataka Congress government to repeal the 2022 anti-conversion law and fulfil its manifesto promise. He spoke at a press conference of minority, Dalit and farmer groups and also sought a review of the cow slaughter ban, which he said ‘hurts Muslims and farmers’. The article notes that the Christian delegation sought a special 1% reservation and that the anti-conversion law targets illegal practices.
Why it matters: The push to repeal Karnataka’s anti-conversion law directly undermines state efforts to dismantle illicit conversion networks. Mainstream Christian institutions, including the Catholic Church, frequently leverage favorable political administrations to intensify their operations to provide institutional cover for evangelicals who target vulnerable Hindu communities through predatory tactics, unscientific healing claims, and anti-Hindu rhetoric.
“Who is the scam-accused Archbishop Peter Machado, who wants Karnataka’s anti-conversion law repealed and the cow slaughter ban reviewed?” — OpIndia, 1 Nov 2026
On 30th October 2026, Archbishop of Bangalore, Peter Machado, urged the Congress government in Karnataka to fulfil its promise of repealing the state’s anti-conversion law. During a media interaction in Bengaluru, Peter Machado said that a meeting of minority communities, Dalit communities, and farmer communities was called to press their demands pertaining to the repeal of the anti-conversion law in the state.
A day prior to the meeting, the Karnataka United Christian Forum for Human Rights issued a statement identifying three priority areas requiring government intervention, including religious freedom, protection against communal hostility and fulfilment of electoral promises.
He said that it has been around three years since the Congress Party formed government in the state and that it also has numbers in the State Assembly to repeal the law…
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