By Matters India Reporter Mumbai, August 9, 2026: The Institute of Indian Culture (IIC), run by the Society of the Divine Word, hosted a lecture on “Anti-Conversion: A Sociological Perspective” on August 8. The event in Mumbai drew a packed audience of scholars, clergy, students, and community members, underscoring theContinue Reading
Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Oct 23, 2025: The Supreme Court of India on October 17 quashed multiple First Information Reports (FIRs) filed under the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021. The FIRs, lodged by third-party complainants affiliated with right-wing Hindu groups, accused Christian educators andContinue Reading
By Fr. C.M. Paul Siliguri, Sept. 19, 2025 — “I married for love, not for religion. But now, I’m treated like a criminal.” These were the words of Ayesha (name changed), a 24-year-old woman from Uttar Pradesh whose interfaith marriage triggered police scrutiny under the state’s anti-conversion law. Her husband,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, March 16, 2023: The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has called for the repeal of anti-conversion laws in force in 12 Indian states. The US federal government entity empowered to monitor and to recommend freedom of religion policies across the worldContinue Reading
Bhopal: A health worker in Madhya Pradesh is facing police investigation after she was seen in a video that purportedly showed her going door to door and asking people to pray to Jesus Christ to stay safe amid the Covid-19 pandemic. BJP legislator Rameshwar Sharma was among those who tweetedContinue Reading
By Saji Thomas Bhopal: Two Catholic nuns and two postulants were forced out of a train March 19 and paraded to a police station in Jhansi, a town in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. They were interrogated for five hours for allegedly violating a state law against forcibleContinue Reading
Hyderabad: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi December 29 hit out at BJP governments in the states for bringing ordinances against religious conversion through fraudulent means, including those for the sake of marriage, claiming they violate the fundamental rights under the Constitution. He also called the Centre’s farm laws “draconian” and daredContinue Reading
The world has seen wars over religious freedom. But India seems to be regressing with the implementation of various “anti-conversion” bills as it carries out the agenda of the government in power. Religious freedom is a relatively recent phenomenon. Most countries across the centuries gave their citizens no such allowance.Continue Reading
Supreme Court has clearly denied freedom of conscience and the judgment deserves reconsiderationContinue Reading
