A senior Catholic leader in northern India has urged priests and nuns trained in law to take a more active role in confronting anti-Christian rhetoric and defending the constitutional rights of minority communities.
High court in Uttar Pradesh has ordered officials across the state to block Christians of Dalit background from accessing government benefits reserved for Scheduled Castes, claiming that allowing converted Christians to continue using these provisions amounts to “constitutional fraud.”
Christian leaders in Assam have cautiously welcomed a proposed change to state law that promises to give long-standing tea estate workers legal rights to the land where their families have lived for generations.
A group of mainly Catholic villagers ended a relay hunger strike lasting more than a year after the Kerala High Court temporarily restored their right to pay tax on land they say they lawfully own.
The High Court in Maharashtra has instructed local authorities to clear unlawful use of a nine-acre plot set aside for a shared burial and cremation ground, criticising officials for failing to protect the land despite earlier directions.
Around 1,500 Christians from 14 to 15 states converged at Jantar Mantar on 29 November to voice concerns over a sharp rise in targeted violence and systematic discrimination against the minority community.
The scheduled visit of prominent American evangelist Rev. Franklin Graham to Nagaland has been cancelled after Indian authorities denied him an entry visa, triggering sharp criticism from opposition parties and disappointing thousands of Christians who were preparing to receive him.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the appeal of a Christian Army officer who was terminated for refusing to enter the inner sanctum of his regiment’s temple, describing his conduct as “the grossest kind of indiscipline.”
An investigation by news outlet Prism, published on 12 November, uncovered official disclosures filed with the US Senate pointing to a significant lobbying effort on behalf of the organisation.
Two Christian families in Chhattisgarh were prevented from burying relatives on their own land after villagers refused to permit Christian burials and demanded Hindu rites instead.
Church leaders in Rajasthan have condemned what they describe as a baseless accusation of religious conversion filed against two pastors under the state’s newly implemented anti-conversion law.
Christian leaders in Haryana have expressed deep concern after a group of local believers were reportedly pressured by a Hindu mob to deny their faith and burn copies of the Bible.
