Parsi Community Struggles with Decision to Join International Zoroastrian Organization

March 1, 2005

Source: Mid-Day

http://ww1.mid-day.com/news/city/2005/march/104630.htm

On March 1, 2005 Mid-Day reported, "The Bombay Parsee Punchayet (BPP) wants to join an organisation called the International Zoroastrian Organisation, largely promoted by diaspora in North America, which is liberal about accepting non-Parsis to Zoroastrianism. But thousands in the community who protested in Gujarat on Sunday say the community’s vast religious properties could be in danger of being taken over by converts from outside India. Over a thousand Parsis gathered in the small town of Bardoli in South Gujarat on Sunday to protest against plans by the BPP and other community organisations to join a proposed world body of Zoroastrians, which is liberal about accepting converts. They passed a resolution opposing the move."