The Chhattisgarh High Court has given the state government three weeks to respond to a petition challenging the constitutionality of its 2026 Freedom of Religion Act, amid continuing concerns over the treatment of Christians in the state.
In a press statement shared with Christian Today India, the All India Catholic Union (AICU) has condemned a mob attack on a Bible convention of Santali Christians in West Bengal and asked the state government to account for its handling of attacks on Christians.
Arun Pannalal, 76, president of the Chhattisgarh Christian Forum, was granted bail on Wednesday by the High Court of Chhattisgarh at Bilaspur, as per reports received. He has not yet walked out of jail, and the conditions of the bail were not immediately known.
A Bible conference attended by more than 1,900 people was brought to an early close after a mob allegedly attacked Santal Christians at a church in West Bengal, eastern India, on 9 October, leaving several people injured and damaging church property.
A 45-year-old pastor was killed inside his home in Batala city, in the Gurdaspur district of Punjab, a state in northern India, on Thursday, October 8, 2026. Police have registered a case against a man from the same locality, and one report said an arrest followed within hours.
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) on Wednesday, October 7, voiced deep concern over reports of irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the ongoing exercise to revise India’s voter lists. In a press statement shared with Christian Today India, the bishops urged the Election Commission of India to guard every citizen’s right to vote.
Ten opposition members of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, have asked its chairman to put off the panel's October 12 meeting by at least four weeks. The Bill has drawn objections from opposition parties and Christian groups.
Christian and Muslim leaders in Punjab have objected to remarks by Hindu preacher Dhirendra Krishna Shastri on religious conversion, with Christian representatives approaching police and a senior Muslim cleric demanding a public apology.
A Naga students’ body has warned that border villagers may turn to China for help if the Centre and the Manipur government cannot protect them, after a succession of killings in the state’s hill districts.
A research group has recorded at least 60 incidents targeting Christians in 13 districts of the Indian state of West Bengal since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) formed its government there for the first time in May.
Churches in Dhamtari, a town in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, have put up notices warning non-Christians that they enter at their own risk, weeks after a law against religious conversion came into force in the state.
Rev. Dal Thawn Tuang, assistant pastor of Lamzang Baptist Church, was shot dead in Myanmar's Chin State on September 14. International Christian Concern (ICC) and the Burma Research Institute (BRI) say the military killed him. A separate account blames escaped prisoners of war.
