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.