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.
According to statements from the newly formed group, authorities are failing to enforce existing laws related to missionary visas and “miracle cures,” prompting the organisation to call for a dedicated anti-conversion law in the state.
The Uttar Pradesh government has applied to withdraw criminal charges in the 2015 Dadri lynching case, in which Mohammad Akhlaq was killed by a mob after allegations of cow slaughter.
Days after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced that singing Vande Mataram would be made compulsory in all educational institutions, a government schoolteacher in Aligarh has been suspended and booked by police for allegedly objecting to the national song during morning assembly and entering into a confrontation with colleagues.
Nitish Kumar, the 74-year-old leader who has dominated Bihar politics for two decades, will become the eastern Indian state’s chief minister for a record tenth time after his coalition won a landslide victory in results declared on Friday, November 14.
The proposed legislation has raised concerns about constitutional violations and the potential criminalisation of charitable work. Community leaders argue it threatens Article 25, which guarantees freedom of conscience and the right to profess, practise and propagate religion.
Leading Christian bodies from across the Northeast have called for urgent intervention by the Centre and state governments to address the escalating humanitarian crisis in Manipur, expressing profound anguish over the ethnic conflict now in its 30th month.
A district administration investigation has found allegations of religious conversion at St. Joseph School in Gwalior’s Badagaon area to be baseless, confirming that all 26 students at the institution were already Christians before their enrolment.
"The women were forced to take this extreme step because police have failed to register a case against their attackers."
