The expanding legal toolkit against religious life. – Non-state violence against conversion. – The ghar wapsi asymmetry. – The framing contest over Nigeria. – Draft bill to ban religious activities in private homes scheduled for Russian Duma consideration.
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 – 24 April – 1 May 2026
India: from law to lived coercion. – The internationalisation of the forced conversion debate. – Pope Leo XIV: doctrine as missionary strategy. – Iran: persecution as geopolitical byproduct. – China: the architecture of legal isolation. – A note on the “genocide” framing in Nigeria. – Islamic Da’wa Campaign Planned for FIFA World Cup 2026.
Proselytism and Religious Outreach Worldwide: Conflicts, Policies, and Trends – 10-17 April 2026
Pope Leo XIV’s historic Africa tour. – India: Chhattisgarh Governor signs harsh anti-conversion law with explicit inclusion of “digital platforms and social media” as vectors of prohibited conversion activity. – China: pressure on underground Catholics escalates. – Pakistan: the gap between legislation and protection. – The regulatory convergence from India to Indonesia, with the regulatory toolkit growing more sophisticated.
Proselytism and Religious Outreach Worldwide: Conflicts, Policies, and Trends – 3-10 April 2026
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.