The two most populous countries in the world have very troubling issues related to freedom of religion or belief. China’s atrocious record dictating people’s beliefs and practices is well known, but ...

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 ...

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 ...

MUMBAI – India’s Supreme Court has given an early procedural victory to religious minorities who are challenging a state-level anti-conversion law they say is unconstitutionally restrictive, invasive, ...

MUMBAI, India – A Catholic priest in India has been granted bail over a month after he was arrested for allegedly trying to force non-Christians to change their religion. In the northern state of ...

A Catholic nun-principal of a nursing college in the central Indian Chhattisgarh state has denied as “false and baseless” the charges of trying to convert a female student. Police on April 6 ...

LUCKNOW: Acting under the state government’s stated “zero tolerance” policy on organised crime, Uttar Pradesh Police on Saturday claimed to have dismantled a pan-India network allegedly involved in ...