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 ...

Studies say Christians are the largest religious group in the mountainous and sparsely populated Arunachal Pradesh situated on the far east of India in the foothills of snow-capped Himalayas. Crowds ...

India’s Supreme Court has set the stage for a landmark constitutional review of anti-conversion laws across 12 states, as Christian bodies mount parallel legal challenges to legislation they say has ...

NEW DELHI (RNS) — While they purport to protect poor Hindus from being exploited, anti-conversion laws have been found to have a more demonstrable effect of generating violence against Christians. NEW ...

Walk up to any tea stall in a small town in northern or western India and mention Christian missionaries, and you are likely to hear tales of mass conversions, foreign money, and vulnerable tribals ...

Indian Hindu devotees perform rituals in the the river Brahmaputra during the Chhath Puja festival in Guwahati, India, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. (Credit: Anupam Nath/AP.) Listen MUMBAI, India – The ...

Six Christians were jailed in a northern Indian state for allegedly violating the stringent anti-conversion law on Jan. 27, the day India’s top court advocated for leniency in granting bail, ...

Catholics in India expressed optimism following the Supreme Court’s recent comments that a draconian anti-conversion law may be found to violate the Indian Constitution. During a May 16 hearing ...