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Parliament Deaf to Christian Cries for Help? Minority Community Issues Rarely Get a Hearing

India, Feb. 2 -- Santa Claus was figuratively lynched in India during Christmas 2025. As many as 150 incidents of vandalism of statues, Christmas trees and shop decorations, attacks and intimidation o... Read More


Budget Allocations Leave Religious Minorities Famished and Deprived

India, Jan. 26 -- The Union Budget for 2026-27 is being formatted even as we write, and will be presented on February 1 in the Lok Sabha. The Budget Session of Parliament will commence from January 28... Read More


Not a Pretty Neighbourhood Religious Freedom in South Asia

India, Jan. 19 -- Christians are persecuted in every one of the eight countries in South Asia, but even prominent religious groups, Hindus and Muslims, and smaller groups of Sikhs and Buddhists, also ... Read More


A New Year Charter for Indian Christians From Fear to the Promise of 2026

India, Jan. 12 -- Many Christians could not celebrate Christmas last year. They were not all in remote villages or small towns. Even in metropolitan cities, some fellow believers spent a day in a poli... Read More


2025 Will Haunt the Indian Christian Community

India, Dec. 29 -- Not much hope was held for 2025, the 12th year of Mr Narendra Modi's powerfully personalised prime ministership, and the 100th year of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, his alma mater... Read More


2025: India's Minorities See a Gradual Unmaking of Constitutional Equality

India, Dec. 1 -- The new chief justice of India, Justice Surya Kant, in his first week in office, was, in retrospect, perhaps a little too harsh in rebuking Lt Colonel Samuel Kamalesan while confirmin... Read More


Echoes of Exclusion The 75-Year-Old Struggle of Dalit Christians

India, Nov. 17 -- For over seven decades, Dalit Christian voices have risen not just against the state's discriminatory fiat but against the very sanctuaries meant to offer solace. As a journalist fo... Read More