Tag: India

An international Christian rights organization warned against what it noted as “a sharp increase in persecution” across eight states

At least 14 violent incidents and 12 cases in which Christians were reported to have been “wrongfully jailed" happened in the past weeks

An Indian court has temporarily prohibited all forms of religious dress in schools while it considers a legal challenge to the hijab ban

Tree-planting initiatives are taking root worldwide as governments and corporations look for ways to cut planet-warming emissions

They said the new anti-conversion law is unnecessary because the Indian Constitution has enough provisions to curtail fraudulent conversions

What began as one school issuing an edict to protect secularism has now escalated into religiously driven protests and counter-protests

The alleged “discrimination” in the appointment of bishops was raised by a group of Dalit Christians in an audience with the Vatican envoy

A priest described the incident as "an unfortunate mistake," adding that the diocese should have been more careful about how the land was used

Uttar Pradesh is a petri dish for hardline Hindu governance and the blunt edge of the BJP's efforts to refashion India into a Hindu nation

Minority communities decry what they described as the increasing persecution under the Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Modi