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For much of Asia, the environmental emergency is not a hypothetical projection for the year 2100. It is the daily reality of polluted land, air and water, and the poor are paying for leaders' misplaced priorities.
Under India's newest anti-conversion law, the person accused of facilitating a conversion must prove it was voluntary. Rev. Richard Howell asks who gets to decide where compassion ends and coercion begins.
Twenty-two Christian women are facing criminal charges after police in Maharashtra, India, accused them of trying to convert an 18-year-old student just days before a stringent new anti-conversion law took effect in that state.
Fear of persecution among Indian Christians has led churches in Maharashtra to ask worshippers to sign consent forms declaring that they attend services of their own free will, as this western state becomes the 13th Indian state with an “anti-conversion” statute.
Silence has long been the default response of Christian institutions in India when confronted with administrative action. This piece argues that the moment calls for something different: neither submission nor confrontation, but courageous constitutional engagement rooted in both scripture and citizenship.
Events from this week in Christian history include the death of Thomas Fuller, the YMCA begins its first world conference, and the birth of V.S. Azariah.
Six years after a constitutional challenge to India's anti-conversion laws was filed, the Supreme Court still hasn't ruled — while the laws spread to 13 states and generate thousands of arrests but almost no convictions.
