Uttarakhand state, India last week passed an amendment to its controversial anti-conversion law expanding punishment to life imprisonment. The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government ...

A debate has erupted online and in Indian social circles worldwide. The subject is U.S. Vice President JD Vance, who has been criticized for hoping that his Hindu wife, Usha, might one day share his ...

(RNS) — False charges of forced conversion, say the leaders, are used to target Christians, who cite attacks on church properties and institutions, the harassment of pastors and raids on private ...

(UPDATED) Hindu nationalists refuse to back down on Christian and Muslim re-conversions, dub India a ‘Hindu nation.’ Update (Dec. 24): Members of India's opposition party protested a Hindu nationalist ...

A woman arrives to cast her vote in Agra, Uttar Pradesh in India on May 7, 2024. (Credit: Altaf Qadri/AP.) Listen MUMBAI, India – A Christian organization in India is against a plan by the state ...

The often-quoted phrase, “Who will tie the cat?” aptly encapsulates the crisis of ecumenism in India today. Amid an increasing anti-Christian atmosphere under the shadow of Hindu majoritarianism, the ...

A Supreme Court judgment last week has come as a ray of hope for India’s tiny Christian community, which is fighting a clutch of laws weaponized in the last ten years against religious minorities.

An amendment tightening an anti-conversion law in India has Christian advocates scrambling to prevent its passage. The proposed change, introduced by a Hindu nationalist BJP-led state government, ...

ROME – In the latest signs of what critics have long described as a deteriorating climate for religious minorities in India under a Hindu nationalist government, several Protestants, including two ...

Editor’s note: This story was updated to correct the month that a worship service was disrupted. We regret the error. As a church leader in India, my heart is heavy ...