India’s proposed FCRA amendments would let the government revoke a charity’s license over vague concerns about “social or religious harmony” and then take control of its assets. With Secretary Rubio in India this week, the U.S. has a chance to urge New Delhi to drop the bill.
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.
The eastern Indian state of Odisha has refused to release Rabindra Kumar Pal, better known as Dara Singh, who is serving a life sentence for burning to death Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two young sons at Manoharpur village in 1999.
A Christian family in India’s Chhattisgarh state was pressured by villagers into conducting Hindu funeral rites for a dead relative after residents refused to allow a burial under her own faith.
More than 25 years after her husband and two sons were burned alive by a Hindu nationalist mob in India, Gladys Staines is again speaking of forgiveness even as the Odisha state government is being pressured to release the primary convict in the case.
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.
