India, May 23 -- Ahead of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's visit to India, an American lawmaker urged him to raise concerns regarding the proposed changes to India's Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA).

Rubio is set to hold extensive discussions with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Sunday, and will attend the Quad foreign ministers' meeting in New Delhi on Tuesday next week.

US Congressman Chris Smith said that the alterations if they go through would allegedly disproportionately affect Christian charities and churches. In an oped written for the Washington Examiner, Smith argued that the passage of new restrictive amendments "could do lasting damage to the relations between our two countries."

The Foreign Contribu...