India News News India » Religion: India's parliament passes bill that would change Muslim land endowments
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — India’s parliament passed a controversial bill moved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government to amend laws governing Muslim land endowments while Muslim ...
News India » Religion: How Vivek Ramaswamy, a Hindu, Is Aligning Himself With Christian Nationalists
In a video taken from the passenger seat of a car after Narendra Modi’s address to the joint session of Congress in June, Vivek Ramaswamy was full of praise for the Indian prime minister. “Modi talked ...
News India » Religion: Clinging to ancient faith, India tribes seek religion status
GUDUTA, India (AP) — Tribal groups have held protests in support of giving Sarna Dharma official religion status ahead of the upcoming national census. GUDUTA, India (AP) — The ritual began with a ...
News India » Religion: India’s Tribes Seek Official Religion Status for Belief System
A tribes woman prays during a sit-in demonstration rally to demand of recognizing Sarna Dharma as a religion in Ranchi, capital of the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, Oct. 18, 2022. Credit: AP ...
News India » Religion: Religion, Conflict and the Quest for Unity in India
Exploring the deep fault lines where faith, power, and ideology collide in modern India's complex landscape, says KUMAR CHELLAPPAN Kunchan Nambiar (1705-1770), the great Malayalam poet, once wrote ...
News India » Religion: India’s religious minorities face harsher anti-conversion laws
E VEN IN THE grave, Chamru Ram Salam found no peace. After a mob gathered to protest against the Christian manner of his burial, the police dug up his corpse and sped off with it. His family’s ...
News India » Religion: India Is Gripped by a Spiritual Tourism Boom as Faith Becomes Fashionable
On a hot April evening in India’s northern city of Varanasi, hundreds of tourists hurry along the banks of the river Ganges, tussling for prime spots to observe an ancient Hindu ritual of prayer to ...
News India » Religion: 'Religion must not be weaponized': India slams Pakistan at UN for fabricating tales of Islamophobia
India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni, strongly condemned violence and hatred committed in the name of religion and emphasised the country’s long ...
News India » Religion: Indian state passes uniform marriage legislation opposed by Muslims as a Hindu code applied to all
LUCKNOW, India — An Indian state has approved an unprecedented uniform code for marriage, divorce, adoption and inheritance for Hindus, Muslims and other religious communities under new legislation ...
News India » Religion: Religion: Reconversion in India
GRAND HISTORIC MASS-CONVERSION CEREMONY, proclaimed posters in a town by the Ganges. Loudspeakers blared that “many Christians tonight will perform a mass return to the religion of their souls.” Only ...