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Faith, Fear and the Long Shadow of a New Law

India, May 25 -- Punjab does not have an anti-conversion law of the sort that twelve BJP-governed states - from Uttar Pradesh to Madhya Pradesh, from Gujarat to Uttarakhand - have enacted with varying... Read More


Opportunity for Rahul and Congress for 2029

India, May 18 -- The glass is more than half full for Rahul Gandhi and his Congress, offering an opportunity to build a worthwhile challenge to the Bharatiya Janata Party in the general elections of 2... Read More


Christians and 2026 Elections Tamil Nadu Gets Its First Christian Chief Minister, But Community Does Not Break New Ground Elsewhere

India, May 11 -- Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, who the Catholic and Protestant Bishops blessed for his work for Dalit Christians and others in the community, lost his seat, but an unheralded bu... Read More


Manipur Year 4: Guns Without Justice

India, May 4 -- Three years into the worst episode of ethnic violence, marked by grave allegations of state failure and complicity, in post-independence India, the central government is preparing to d... Read More


Birth Pangs of A New Church Umbrella Body

India, April 27 -- Cardinal Anthony Poola - President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India and Archbishop of Hyderabad - will hopefully preside over the Fourth National Ecumenical Bishops' Fel... Read More


National Christian Welfare Board and the Mischief Behind It

India, April 20 -- The proposed National Christian Welfare Board, first reported in the media in early April 2026, is described as a quasi-judicial body with state government representation, framed as... Read More


The Myth of the Congress Bond The Sachar Report Helped Muslims; The Ranganath Misra Report Couldn't Help Dalit Christians

India, April 13 -- It is a nice, warm, abiding myth, and was possibly true also in the first two decades of India's independence. The myth that the then-ruling Congress party and the Indian Christian ... Read More


The Criminal Fakery of Ghar Wapsi and a Century of Purification

India, April 6 -- A century-old project to define the Indian citizen as fundamentally Hindu, regardless of their current profession of faith, seems to be reaching fruition in the law books. The shift ... Read More


Dalit Christians Caught Between Courts and Politicians

India, March 30 -- More than 20 years ago, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, then the Congress president, told this correspondent and Catholic priest Fr S Lourduswamy that hope for Dalit Christians getting the protec... Read More


The Greedy Maw of Odisha's Corporations in Tribal Lands

India, March 16 -- Villagers from Lanjiberna in Odisha's Sundargarh district are waging a last-ditch struggle in the Supreme Court of India to stop corporate sabotage of Scheduled Area laws and tribal... Read More