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Proselytism and Religious Outreach Worldwide: Conflicts, Policies, and Trends – 26 June – 3 July 2026

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A week fdominated by the mechanics of how states and churches police religious outreach. The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention declared 26 Jehovah’s Witnesses arbitrarily detained in Russia — outreach criminalised as “extremism,” a comparative counterpoint to India’s anti-conversion statutes and finance rules. Meanwhile Rome staffed its First Evangelization arm (30 June) and, at the consistory, disciplined mission theologically: “credibility” over “institutional self-preservation.”

Proselytism and Religious Outreach Worldwide: Conflicts, Policies, and Trends – 19–26 June 2026

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This week’s briefing centres on India’s regulatory escalation: new FCRA Rules 2026 (22 June) explicitly bar foreign funds for religious conversion, reinforced by the Timothy Initiative UAPA case and seven pastors sentenced in Madhya Pradesh. The Vatican consistory (26–27 June) saw Pope Leo XIV restate the witness-vs-proselytism line. Adventists publicly questioned their own evangelism’s cultural sensitivity.

Proselytism and Religious Outreach Worldwide: Conflicts, Policies, and Trends- 12–19 June 2026

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This week’s briefing leads with the launch of AdventistMission.org, the new digital platform of the Seventh-day Adventist Office of Adventist Mission, using it to survey a 23.7-million-member enterprise pivoting toward the 10/40 Window and “mission to other faiths.” It pairs with the Muslim World League’s Kuala Lumpur congress and its new apologetics journal in Malay, English, Chinese and Hindi, a fresh Yad L’Achim counter-missionary case in Israel, and analysis of money as a shared grammar of conversion conflicts.

Proselytism and Religious Outreach Worldwide: Conflicts, Policies, and Trends – 5-12 June 2026

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This week’s conflicts over proselytism clustered in South Asia, but the patterns travel. In Congress-ruled Himachal Pradesh, “cash-for-conversion” allegations and a VHP demand for a foreign-funding probe showed the financialised anti-conversion frame outrunning party lines; fresh arrests in Uttar Pradesh and a Catholic bail fight under Rajasthan’s new 2025 law confirmed that the accusation itself does the work. Against this, Mongolia’s Buddhist relic exposition drew 100,000 — outreach honoured, not policed.

Proselytism and Religious Outreach Worldwide: Conflicts, Policies, and Trends – 29 May – 5 June 2026

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This week’s briefing finds the same story playing out in three countries: a religious majority casting the missionary as the intruder. In India’s Uttarakhand, arrests over alleged Christian conversion of the Tharu tribe escalate into an SIT probe and a “foreign funding” charge; in Nepal, a conversion accusation on Parliament’s floor draws Christian protest; in Indonesia’s Bantul, an Islamist group halts a permitted church service.