India’s famed Emperor Ashoka was an ancient convert from Hinduism to Buddhism. He demonstrated that a person is NOT forced by others to convert from one religion to another. Today, “religious ...

Uttarakhand state, India last week passed an amendment to its controversial anti-conversion law expanding punishment to life imprisonment. The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The two most populous countries in the world have very troubling issues related to freedom of religion or belief. China’s ...

NEW DELHI (RNS) — While they purport to protect poor Hindus from being exploited, anti-conversion laws have been found to have a more demonstrable effect of generating violence against Christians. NEW ...

Catholics in India expressed optimism following the Supreme Court’s recent comments that a draconian anti-conversion law may be found to violate the Indian Constitution. During a May 16 hearing ...

Studies say Christians are the largest religious group in the mountainous and sparsely populated Arunachal Pradesh situated on the far east of India in the foothills of snow-capped Himalayas. Crowds ...

ROME – In the latest signs of what critics have long described as a deteriorating climate for religious minorities in India under a Hindu nationalist government, several Protestants, including two ...

Indian Hindu devotees perform rituals in the the river Brahmaputra during the Chhath Puja festival in Guwahati, India, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. (Credit: Anupam Nath/AP.) Listen MUMBAI, India – The ...