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The word conversion or converted is a buzz 
word

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You want a kind to avoid that because if 
people

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in fact people will see us as missionaries 
and they'll say you're converting

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and to us it's almost like well yeah it's 
good thing we aspire to be converted to the 
lord

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but as Indians see it's a different they're 
almost get different meaning

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and i think as historical there's been some 
historically some issues with maybe Chirstian 
churches

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paying people to stop beign hindu and to 
come to church now and giving them sarees

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which is kind of indian woman clothing sarees 
and they must be somewhat expensive so they're 
giving out sarees

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food money and that's called converting and 
so as for missionary safety is thats the 
big thing

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there be groups usually they're political 
groups that are very they're tied to fundamentalist 
religious groups

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and so they have concerns about chirstian 
churches especially missionaries and so i 
rememeber one time

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like you realize that they have simply you 
learn their symbol pretty quick

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and i think the biggest the most obvious 
one was color orange of a lot of orange and 
a certain political party

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and they would put lotus flower(BJP) i think 
orange lotus flower so i remember right and 
that was kind of a symbol

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that this was an area that was dominated 
by this political party

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and what they would do is it makes certain 
mission they make missionaries and it happened 
to a few in the mission

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they signed documents saying i was converting 
i was paying people to do certain certain 
and then throw you in jail

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because they had the power to do that and 
so that happened a few mission and never 
happened to me.