Nepal’s police detained former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Nepali Congress leader and former home minister Ramesh Lekhak on Saturday morning, March 28, in connection with a culpable homicide case arising from the deaths of 77 people during the youth-led protests of September 2025.
India ranked 105 out of 179 countries on the Liberal Democracy Index in 2025, down from 100 the previous year, according to the Democracy Report 2026 released this week by the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The country has remained classified as an “electoral autocracy” since 2017.
March 24 is celebrated as the Feast of St. Oscar Romero. It was on this day in 1980 that he was brutally gunned down ...
A United States federal commission has documented a continuing pattern of attacks on Christian communities across India through 2025, recommending that Washington classify India among the world’s worst violators of religious freedom and impose sanctions on organisations it holds responsible.
A total of 3,406 candidates contested 165 seats under the first-past-the-post system, while 3,135 candidates vied for the remaining 110 seats allocated through proportional representation. Nearly a third of all 3,400-odd candidates were under 40.
Balendra Shah, a 35-year-old structural engineer and former rapper, is poised to become Nepal’s youngest-ever prime minister.
A global network of Iranian Christians has welcomed targeted strikes against Iran’s leadership by the US and Israel.
Christians are praying for a new and better future for Iran, one that includes the protection of religious freedom, following the death of the country's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The so-called Islamic State group has launched a series of fresh attacks in Syria, describing the violence as a “new phase of operations” against the country’s current leadership.
A man in Ireland has pleaded guilty to forcing a woman to take abortion pills, resulting in the death of her unborn child. The case is believed to be one of the first of its kind before the Irish courts.
As Russia’s war against Ukraine enters its fifth year, church leaders and human rights groups report increasing pressure on religious communities in territories under Russian control. Since the full-scale invasion ordered by President Vladimir Putin in February 2022, occupying authorities have tightened restrictions on churches they consider disloyal. Protestant congregations in particular are said to have faced raids, forced closures and intimidation. In several occupied regions, Protesta
Catholic churches in north-east Nigeria are witnessing a surge in worshippers, with bishops reporting that the faithful are returning “in their thousands, not hundreds” despite more than a decade of brutal violence.
