“India a secular country”: Tripura High Court slams Chakma committees for boycott of Christian converts “India is a secular country and everybody has the fundamental right to choose his own religion,” the Court said while reprimanding certain Chakma committees for encouraging a boycott of the Christian converts. Justice Arindam Lodh and Tripura High Court Ratna […]

Jesus Christ’s Photo At Home Doesn’t Mean Person Has Converted: Bombay High Court CITY | Vaibhav Ganjapure | TNN | Oct 20, 2023, 12:36 IST NAGPUR: Does having the photograph of a religious figure at his/her home mean a person is professing that particular religion? The Nagpur bench of Bombay high court replied in the […]

Tripura HC directs state to halt religious persecution of Buddhist-to-Christian converts The High Court of Tripura has ordered the state government to stop any acts of religious persecution against those who have converted from Buddhism to Christianity. This follows a petition alleging harassment and discrimination against such individuals. Tripura HC directs state to halt religious […]

How Can You Stop Someone From Praying? Allahabad High Court To State In PIL Alleging Illegal Sealing Of Church Upasna Agrawal 24 Aug 2023 9:00 PM Sha https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/allahabad-high-court/allahabad-high-court-pil-illegal-sealing-church-forced-religious-conversion-right-to-worship-pray-236114

Karnataka To Scrap BJP Government’s Anti-Conversion Law The changes approved by the Karnataka cabinet today also included history syllabus in schools and a law on agricultural markets, said Law & Parliamentary Affairs minister HK Patil India News Reported by Sreeja M S, Edited by Anindita Sanyal Updated : June 15, 2023 5:03 pm IST Bengaluru: […]

9 killed, 10 injured in fresh flare-up in ethnic violence-hit Manipur ByUtpal Parashar Jun 14, 2023 10:04 AM IST A group of armed assailants descended upon Agijang village and triggered a gunfight when security forces rushed to the area to counter them Nine people were killed and 10 others wounded in a gunfight that erupted […]

By Matters India Reporter Jashpur, June 8, 2023: A Catholic nun’s first home visit after her religious profession has ended in a tragedy in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Sister Bibha Kerketta was on June 6 arrested and jailed along with her mother and three others after her family organized a Mass in their […]

Had ‘cordial’ meeting with Amit Shah, mentioned Manipur attacks: Chief of Catholic bishops’ body Updated: Jun 5 2023 10:31PM Kochi, Jun 5 (PTI) Archbishop Andrews Thazhath, president of Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI), raised the issues of “attacks” in Manipur and some incidents in Madhya Pradesh during his “personal meeting” with Union Home Minister […]

“Citizens entitled to propagate religion”: Bombay High Court quashes Section 144 order against Christian couple accused of conversion The Court held that the petitioners were within their rights to propagate their own religion and to profess it in any manner they please, more so, when it was within their own private property. Justices Mahesh Sonak […]

Nothing illegal about missionaries spreading Christianity: TN Govt in SC ByUtkarsh Anand May 01, 2023 04:21 AM IST TN government says that “every citizen has the opportunity to practice and spread his religion peacefully”. There is nothing illegal about missionaries spreading Christianity unless they employ unlawful means to do so, the Tamil Nadu government has […]

PM Modi meets top Kerala bishops in push to BJP’s Christian outreach PTI | Apr 25, 2023 06:15 PM IST Modi, who arrived on a two-day Kerala visit, met eight top Church priests including Syro-Malabar Catholic Church head Cardinal George Alencherry. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday met the top priests of various churches in […]

By Matters India Reporter Ghazipur, April 23, 2023: A court in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has remanded six Protestant Christians, including two pastors, in judicial custody for allegedly violating a state law that restrains religious conversion. Among the remanded is a 1.5-year-old girl whose parents are in judicial custody now. “It is […]