New Delhi, June 16 -- Religions across the world contain profound moral beauty. At their best, they inspire extraordinary courage, sacrifice, and love. They have given billions of people a framework for meaning, community, and ethical life. This is not in dispute.

Yet throughout history, even small misinterpretations of religious teaching - sometimes born of genuine confusion, sometimes deliberately engineered by bad actors for political ends - have led to division, hostility, and violence. A tiny minority of people, sincerely convinced by distorted versions of their tradition, can turn a noble inheritance into a source of conflict. Over centuries, these distortions have contributed to the suffering and death of millions. That is a docum...