in a rare verdict in the multiracial but Muslim-majority nation, Shanmuga said. "It is the first time ever that a child's conversion certificate has been quashed by a high court," he told AFP.

He issued a certiorari order to cancel her Islamic conversion certificate and all other related documents. He further directed the removal of her details from the state’s Muslim converts ...

has no conversion certificate, and never recited the declaration of faith. Mahendran said his mother, who is illiterate, converted him to Islam when he was 12 after marrying a Muslim man.

The department did nothing to convince them of Islam. It merely provided them with books and brochures about the religion. He said that after new Muslims were given their conversion certificates ...

Until now, Egyptian courts have upheld a traditional reading of Islamic ... certificates and identity papers identifying them as Christians. But the paperwork will note their previous conversion ...