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.
Around 600 families in a coastal village in Kerala’s Ernakulam district are facing renewed uncertainty after a Muslim organisation moved to challenge a High Court order that had offered the villagers hope of securing their land rights.
Christian leaders in Arunachal Pradesh state are voicing strong opposition to a renewed government effort to finalise rules for a decades-old law that restricts religious conversion, saying it poses a direct threat to constitutional freedom of religion.
The petition contends that these terms have been defined so broadly that they blur the distinction between voluntary and forced conversions.
The bipartisan US Congress-backed body released an India-specific issue update claiming that national and state-level laws have imposed severe restrictions on religious freedom across the country.
