A taxi driver fined in Moscow for “missionary activity” after praying alone on the tarmac. A Maine supreme court giving a father authority over whether his daughter may attend an evangelical church. Hindutva activists staging a sit-in in a Hyderabad software company’s car park over an alleged conversion attempt — where the only police complaint on file is the company’s, against the protesters. The week’s material shares a structure: the offence is constituted not by a convert but by a witness. Meanwhile Southern Baptist missionaries carried virtual-reality relationships onto Tokyo streets at the invitation of the convention’s own organisers, and Indonesian scholars asked what the sponsorship market is doing to the preacher.