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Christian persecution in India spiked in 2019, new report finds

Religion Unplugged On 10th April, 2019, Pastor Jose along with a few others visited Beechu Ram’s house in Ghatampur village located in Ghazipur in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh. During the time of prayer, an unidentified youth trespassed into the house and started recording a video of the proceedings. He then contacted the local […]

South Korean Christian arrested in Nepal on charges of attempting to convert, says report

A Christian from South Korea arrested in Nepal on charges of “attempting to convert” was released on bail on Wednesday, Morning Star News has reported. Cho Yusang, a 73-year-old evangelical Christian, posted bail of 150,000 Nepalese rupees ($US1,330) after being arrested on 23rd July, according to Morning Star News which quoted Tanka Subedi, chair of […]

Four Christians, including US woman, arrested in Nepal hotel over claims of conversion

Christians in Nepal

Police in Nepal arrested four Christians, including a woman from the US, at a hotel early Tuesday morning on charges of “conversion by allurement”, Morning Star News reports. The US-based news organisation, which covers the persecuted church, reports that police detained the four at their hotel in Ghorahi, about 420 kilometres west of the capital Kathmandu, at […]

UN weakness on religious freedom undercuts its authority on human rights, says report

World Watch Monitor The UN cannot strengthen, promote and protect human rights if it does not prioritise religious freedom, a report published by the Washington-based human rights alliance, ADF International has argued. The 73 page report, titled Anti-Conversion Laws and the International Response, claims that “some UN entities, especially special rapporteurs, have highlighted the problems with […]

Christian Solidarity Worldwide “deeply concerned” over proposed anti-conversion law in Nepal

Religious freedom advocacy Christian Solidarity Worldwide has joined with human rights activists in Nepal calling for the amendment of proposed legislation which they say criminalises religious conversion and the “hurting of religious sentiment”. The Nepali Parliament passed a Bill on 8th August which the UK based organisation says, under clause 160, would restrict religious conversion. […]

US religious freedom report on India rejected as ‘Hinduphobia’

RNS Political leaders in India have rejected a critical report by a US government religious freedom commission, while an American Hindu group called it “Hinduphobia.” The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent, bipartisan panel, released a special report earlier this month alleging the fate of religious minorities has deteriorated under the Hindu […]

India’s religious freedom failings ‘enshrined in constitution’

World Watch Monitor Religious freedom in India will never be achieved unless the country is willing to make substantial amendments to its constitution and legal framework, says a new report which also calls on the US to put human rights at the heart of trade and diplomatic interactions with India. A tide of religiously motivated […]