News from Nigeria, India, Pakistan, Turkey. – Iranian Christian converts detained by US Immigration. – Catholic Church: more detailed data revealing the scale and geographic breadth of the 2026 Easter baptism surge. – Provincial council will address the pastoral challenge of welcoming, forming, and integrating the unprecedented number of neophytes entering the French Church. – The “missionary-as-provocateur” frame.
Proselytism and Religious Outreach Worldwide: Conflicts, Policies, and Trends – Weekly Briefing – 21-27 March 2026
India has entered an accelerated phase of what might be called the “juridification of conversion.” – The “public Islam” controversy in Britain as a template. – The structural asymmetry of persecution coverage. – The centennial of World Mission Sunday in October 2026 will likely generate a significant volume of Catholic reflection on the theology and ethics of mission.
Proselytism and Religious Outreach Worldwide: Conflicts, Policies, and Trends — Weekly Briefing — 14–20 March 2026
The legislative tightening around conversion accelerates in South and Southeast Asia. – The collapse of the mainline Protestant missionary model is now complete. -The proselytism-attraction dichotomy continues to define Catholic ecclesiology. – The judicialization of street evangelism in the United States. – Digital proselytism as an emerging regulatory battleground.
Document: “Christian Witness in a Multireligious World – Recommendations for Conduct”
Aware of the tensions between people and communities of different religious convictions and the varied interpretations of Christian witness, the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID), the World Council of Churches (WCC) and, at the invitation of the WCC, the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), met during a period of 5 years to reflect and produce […]