This week’s briefing tracks two converging dynamics. In India, the “ghar wapsi” reconversion campaign pushed eastward into Uttar Pradesh and Odisha, where a single conversion can be narrated at once as a crime (when toward Islam) and a celebrated homecoming (when toward Hinduism) — while Nepal’s Christians petitioned to repeal anti-proselytism law. Meanwhile, a debate among China’s persecuted house churches over whether Western advocacy protects or endangers them, and Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas, which calls the digital world “a new continent to be evangelised.”