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.
Proselytism and Religious Outreach Worldwide: Conflicts, Policies, and Trends – 8-18 May 2026
China’s southward expansion and legal recharacterisation. – The American accountability gap. – Anti-missionary law as administrative routine. – Toward a papal ethics of digital-age mission. – The South–South missionary frontier.
Proselytism and Religious Outreach Worldwide: Conflicts, Policies, and Trends – 1-8 May 2026
India’s elections as a conversion-policy referendum. – The USCIRF-RSS moment: internationalised accountability meets nationalist backlash. – Pope Leo XIV: toward an encyclical theology of mission. – China’s two-track religious repression. – The Turkey precedent: proselytism as national security threat.