India’s Roman Catholic bishops have recently elected the country’s first Dalit cardinal to lead them. The symbolism is powerful. But can one man, in perhaps four years, dismantle the caste walls that still run through the Indian Church?
The leader of the Evangelical Fellowship of India says that time-bound global efforts that continue to shape priorities across many Christian networks require urgent change as we face massive global political and economic realignment, medium-term instability, and societal rupture.
Understanding the universality of kindness, patience, and harmony matters. Faith is not always visible, it survives and sustains itself in the same way peace does—through attentiveness, restraint, and small acts that refuse to escalate difference into division.
Hong Kong businessman and prominent pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai was sentenced to a horrendous twenty years in jail on Monday February 9th, 2026. For political reasons he is unlikely to die in prison. When released, we will do well to listen to what he has to say about his experience of sweet joy and love in a most unlikely place.
In this church planting testimony, what began as a three-person gathering has developed into a stable and flexible model: open homes for consistent meetings, and a focus on nurturing discipleship. Faith has become part of daily life, not confined to a church building. There is much to learn from this example of faithful service in the north west of China.
Tribal relatives killed three members of a Christian family in India’s Odisha state last month, leaving three children, including a preteen and a teenager, orphaned and forcing them into hiding, sources said.
Police in Pakistan allegedly failed to act after a 14-year-old Christian girl was abducted, forcibly converted to Islam and married to a Muslim man despite official documents showing she is a minor, her father and legal counsel said.
A brick kiln worker’s forced conversion to Islam in Pakistan’s national database has left his five children unable to have their Christian faith designated on their national identity cards, his son said.
When Ahnaf Jazeem wrote poetry condemning violence and promoting peace in Sri Lanka in 2017, he never imagined his verses would lead to 19 months in detention without trial.
The Allahabad High Court ruled on February 10 that a person’s caste, as determined at birth, cannot be altered by marriage or religious conversion, dismissing a criminal appeal that sought to strip a Scheduled Caste woman of her legal protections on the ground that she had married outside her community.
A high court in Pakistan this month rejected bail for a blind Christian charged with blasphemy despite significant discrepancies in the police report and prosecution testimonies, his attorney said.
Micah Global has appointed Roshan Mendis as its new Global Director, the international Christian development and advocacy network announced Saturday, Feb. 28.
