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- 31 July – 7 August 2026
This week’s briefing opens on a paradox: Nigeria’s Senate has criminalised bus preaching — not under a religion law but under a road-safety act, and defends itself by noting the ban has sat quietly in traffic regulations since 2007. Elsewhere three traditions moved to police their own missionaries: Indonesia’s MUI certified a 49th cohort of preachers, Thailand’s overseas dhammaduta office met in Ulaanbaatar to map legal obstacles, and the IMB deployed physiotherapy where preaching is unwelcome. Plus Yad L’Achim confronts the IDF, and lay Christians outpace their pastors into AI.
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.
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.