Myanmar's parliament this week approved a bill restricting religious conversations, reports Irrawaddy.
The bill which is the last of four bills called the 'Race and Religion Protection Bills" was tabled by the Buddhist nationalist group, Ma Ba Tha in 2013, and subsequently taken forward to parliament at the end of last year.
The legislation, was discussed along side a monogamy bill, will place restrictions on interfaith marriages, introduce legal procedures for religious conversions and grant local government to rate the number of children couples could have.
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Myanmar, which follows the same sect of Buddhism as in Sri Lanka, has over recent years come under much international criticism for its treatment of religious and ethnic minorities, including the Rohingya Muslims.
The bill which is the last of four bills called the 'Race and Religion Protection Bills" was tabled by the Buddhist nationalist group, Ma Ba Tha in 2013, and subsequently taken forward to parliament at the end of last year.
The legislation, was discussed along side a monogamy bill, will place restrictions on interfaith marriages, introduce legal procedures for religious conversions and grant local government to rate the number of children couples could have.
See more here.
Myanmar, which follows the same sect of Buddhism as in Sri Lanka, has over recent years come under much international criticism for its treatment of religious and ethnic minorities, including the Rohingya Muslims.