This week’s briefing centres on India’s regulatory escalation: new FCRA Rules 2026 (22 June) explicitly bar foreign funds for religious conversion, reinforced by the Timothy Initiative UAPA case and seven pastors sentenced in Madhya Pradesh. The Vatican consistory (26–27 June) saw Pope Leo XIV restate the witness-vs-proselytism line. Adventists publicly questioned their own evangelism’s cultural sensitivity.
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.