Can preaching alone, with no convert in sight, cost a believer his right to stay? India’s Madras High Court says yes: a US citizen of Indian origin lost his OCI status for preaching in villages without permission. The same week, India’s Supreme Court took up a challenge to Chhattisgarh’s 2026 anti-conversion Act, Russia fined four people for “missionary activity” at a Muslim prayer site in Yekaterinburg, and a Kuwaiti da’wa committee reported 1,407 converts in three months, most of them reached online abroad. From Rome’s “Church of the Sheaves” to Orthodox missionaries trained against neopaganism, this briefing traces a shift: the offence is moving from conversion to unlicensed speech.