RSS : Willing Goan Catholics can re-convert

Panaji, Dec 28 , 2014: In the midst of a nationwide row over the issue of re-conversion, a senior RSS official said that the organisation was willing to facilitate the 'Ghar Wapsi' (re-conversion) of those willing Goan Catholics, whose ancestors were forcibly converted during the colonial Portuguese era. Speaking to a select group of journalists in Goa, on the sidelines of a training camp for 15-year-old plus RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) volunteers, Sharad Kunte, who heads the Sangh's intellectual Wing for the western region, also said that the RSS was not actively seeking to re-convert people, but only serving as a facilitator or guide to those who wanted to come back into their original religious fold. "If they want to come back, we are ready to welcome them..." Kunte said, when asked about the Sangh's position on Hindus who had been converted by the Portuguese centuries earlier.