Matters India Reporter Itanagar, October 19, 2025: In a sweeping show of cultural solidarity, over 10,000 indigenous faith followers from across Arunachal Pradesh converged in Itanagar for a peaceful protest rally demanding the enforcement of the Arunachal Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act, 1978. The October 18 event, organized by theContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Dec 20, 2023: Church groups in India on December 20 expressed joy after a court granted bail to a priest and three Catholics in judicial custody for nearly three months for allegedly violating an anti-conversion law. The Allahabad High Court, the top court of UttarContinue Reading
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 familyContinue Reading
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 inContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Jhabua, Feb 24, 2023: A Protestant bishop was remanded in judicial custody in connection with an alleged case of religious conversion in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The family members of Auxiliary Bishop Paul Muniya of the Shalom Church in Jhabua district have deniedContinue Reading
The Gujarat High Court (HC), in an interim order on Aug. 19, stayed some sections pertaining to interfaith marriages of the newly enacted anti-conversion law in the State. A division bench of the court stayed the implementation of several sections of the Gujarat Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Act, 2021. TheContinue Reading
Nagpur: The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad (UP ATS) has arrested three persons from Nagpur in connection with a case registered in Lucknow under UP’s anti-conversion law, an official said July 17. The three were arrested from Nagpur’s Ganeshpeth area July 16 night, he said. The accused have been identified asContinue Reading
Srinagar: A Sikh organisation in Srinagar June 30 demanded the implementation of the Inter-Caste Marriage Act and the enactment of an anti-conversion law in Jammu and Kashmir. This comes amid a row over the allegations of forced conversion of four women from the Sikh community to Islam in the unionContinue Reading
New Delhi: A nationwide law to ban religious conversions or interfaith marriages is not being planned since it falls under the dominion of states, the central government said in parliament on February 2. The assurance came amid a renewed drive for such legislation in several states ruled by the BharatiyaContinue Reading
Ranchi: “Anti-conversion” laws, which in fact are instruments to restrict religious freedom, continue to exacerbate and polarize Indian society: says Jesuit Father Michael Kerketta, Indian theologian and professor in Ranchi, capital of the Indian state of Jharkhand, northern India. Jharkhand recently became the ninth state of India to approve andContinue Reading
