A Christian prayer meeting was cancelled in the country’s IT capital Bengaluru on Apr 8 after complaints were lodged that this could facilitate forced conversions in the city which was to host two American preachers for this event. The cancellation came just about 12...
Jailed Christian attorney Nguyen Van Dai received an award by the German Association of Judges on April 5 for his efforts to defend human rights in Vietnam. Dai, who has been held incommunicado at a prison in Hanoi, was the first Vietnamese lawyer to win the Human...
The number of Catholics worldwide is rising fastest in Africa while the church continues to suffer from a shortage of priests in some parts of the world. According to the Vatican’s latest statistics, released on April 6, the number of Catholics globally rose 1%, to...
Locals along with members of St John’s church in Secu-nderabad held a protest on Mar 28 against demolition of houses on church land by district authorities. The protesters demanded that the victims be relocated in new houses. As many as 16 people were rendered...
The Assam government on April 9 announced a draft population policy which suggested denial of government jobs to people with more than two children and making education up to university level free for all girls in the state. “This is a draft population policy. We have...
