A Christian lawmaker on Tuesday (March 31) introduced a bill in the Punjab Assembly seeking to criminalize forced religious ...

In a significant legal victory against forced conversions/marriages in Pakistan, a civil court has annulled the marriage of a ...

Nepalese authorities arrested four foreigners accused of illegal religious conversions within a week, which religious minority leaders say shows the Hindu-majority nation's increasing hostility toward ...

Indian Cardinal Oswald Gracias speaks at a meeting of Indian Catholic bishops in Bangalore Feb. 3, 2015. (Credit: Anto Akkara/CNS.) Listen MUMBAI, India – In India, Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Bombay ...

Shahida Bibi, a Pakistani Christian girl, was only 11 years old when her mother left her father for a Muslim man and handed over her daughter to her new husband’s brother. “He basically kept her as a ...

A Nepal court acquits a Christian pastor of forced religious conversion charges. A landmark ruling for religious freedom and ...

The Supreme Court conversion therapy case, Chiles v. Salazar, involves a hate group defending psychological torture as a “religious right.” After years of refusing to hear such cases, the Supreme ...

Maharashtra's new Freedom of Religion Bill 2026 introduces stringent measures against religious conversions through coercion, fraud, or marriage, sparking debate over constitutional rights and ...

The Maharashtra assembly on Monday night passed the Freedom of Religion Bill 2026, which has stringent provisions to prohibit religious conversions carried out through coercion, fraud, inducement or ...

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