Anglicans meet in India to tackle modern slavery: 'Church cannot remain passive'
Anglicans recently met in the Diocese of Durgapur in north India for a conference aimed at tackling human trafficking and slavery.
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Skip to main contentAnglicans recently met in the Diocese of Durgapur in north India for a conference aimed at tackling human trafficking and slavery.
More than six months after police in southern India dismissed the death of a pastor as a road accident, Christians in the region say there is strong evidence that the continually threatened evangelist was murdered.
The first Christian charged under an “anti-conversion” law has now become the first to be acquitted under the Uttarakhand state statute following a four-year legal battle.
A 20-year-old Christian woman was raped and her mother nearly killed by their Hindu relatives in a religiously motivated attack and a dispute over property rights.
Police in India arrested a pastor and his wife on fabricated charges and beat the woman while in custody.
District administration in Chhattisgarh’s Dhamtari has ordered an investigation into a 115-year-old Christian hospital following complaints from Bajrang Dal, Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and other Hindutva organisations. The groups have accused the Bathena Christian Hospital of medical negligence and forced religious conversion.
The Uttarakhand Cabinet last Wednesday approved the Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Bill 2025, introducing some of the harshest penalties in India for “forced religious conversion,” including sentences ranging from three years to life imprisonment.



















