Two weeks of conflicts over proselytism, from Central Asia to Nigeria. In Kazakhstan, nine alleged Tablighi Jamaat members are tried on hidden-camera evidence; in Uzbekistan, a Shia faces prison for laments posted on Telegram; Pakistan’s top court upholds the ban on the Ahmadiyya founder’s writings. The Muslim World League plans to supply Islamic sources to AI companies, Yad L’Achim reissues an outreach booklet in Russian and Arabic, and Nigeria’s bishops warn of “neo-paganism”. Our analysis follows enforcement from the book to the channel to the private conversation, and asks why a return to ancestral religion is “homecoming” in one place and regression in another.
Proselytism and Religious Outreach Worldwide: Conflicts, Policies, and Trends – 7–18 August 2026
The convert, not the missionary, is the figure the law now reaches. An Acehnese court jailed a former Muslim for explaining his conversion on TikTok; a Nigerian federal court told Kano’s Hisbah it has no jurisdiction over a woman who left Islam; ten Catholics walked free in Rajasthan after 104 days in jail for defending their own Mass. In Moscow, a hostel was fined 100,000 roubles for “unlawful missionary activity” because migrant guests kept prayer mats. In Abuja, Nigeria’s Salafi da’wa movement signed peace protocols with northern Christian leaders under Muslim World League patronage.
Proselytism and Religious Outreach Worldwide: Conflicts, Policies, and Trends- 12–19 June 2026
This week’s briefing leads with the launch of AdventistMission.org, the new digital platform of the Seventh-day Adventist Office of Adventist Mission, using it to survey a 23.7-million-member enterprise pivoting toward the 10/40 Window and “mission to other faiths.” It pairs with the Muslim World League’s Kuala Lumpur congress and its new apologetics journal in Malay, English, Chinese and Hindi, a fresh Yad L’Achim counter-missionary case in Israel, and analysis of money as a shared grammar of conversion conflicts.