A key committee of Pakistan’s Punjab Province Assembly on Monday (April 13) reportedly approved legislation that would help protect Christian and other minority-religion girls targeted for forced conversion and illegal marriage.
Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India’s culture wars have morphed from rhetoric into policy and an emboldened ecosystem of vigilantes and ideological enforcers has emerged alongside the state, advancing a vision of an uncompromisingly Hindu India. This presents a growing threat to democracy, religious liberty, and especially a minority Christian population.
Having lost her father, her career, and her dream of becoming a mother in quick succession, Meera Davina Mahadevan found herself in a crucible of suffering. Rejecting easy answers, here she shares a fresh reflection on her journey, exploring how faith can survive, and even thrive, in the deep valleys of suffering and loss.
Many creatives want to serve but assume mission belongs only to preachers, Bible teachers, or medical workers. When they begin to see that media, design, photography, and storytelling can also be part of God’s work, something begins to open within them and, as Jasmine testifies: many new things become possible.
It is the beauty of a transformed life that gives credibility to our words and vitality to our witness. The Church in China provides ample evidence of this. In this article, China specialist Brent Fulton reflections on the different ways the gospel has been transmitted and people transformed since the 1970s.
About 8,000 participants filled Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul, Korea, on April 4 for the “2026 Easter Parade,” a large-scale public event highlighting the biblical narrative and the history of the Korean church while proclaiming the message of the risen Christ.
The Yanghwajin Archives in Seoul has launched a digital archive providing public access to more than 7,000 historical records documenting the role of Christianity and foreign missionaries in Korea.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday (March 31) ordered a trial court to conclude within six months the case against assailants in the 2023 anti-Christian attacks in Jaranwala, according to media reports.
A Christian lawmaker on Tuesday (March 31) introduced a bill in the Punjab Assembly seeking to criminalize forced religious conversions with penalties of up to five years in prison,
Christians, rights advocates and civil society members at protests in Pakistan on Sunday (March 29) condemned a recent federal court verdict upholding a forced conversion/marriage of a Christian girl by a Muslim man.
A U.S. advisory body for the first time has called for targeted sanctions against a major Hindu nationalist group, accusing it of systematic violations of religious freedom.
A key committee of Pakistan’s Punjab Province Assembly on Monday (April 13) reportedly approved legislation that would help protect Christian and other minority-religion girls targeted for forced conversion and illegal marriage.
