Two youths climbed the walls of a church compound in northern India the day after Christmas, demolished a life-size statue of Jesus, and vandalized the lighting system before fleeing the scene.
The Chinese military is reportedly moving a large number of unmanned ground vehicles into the Tibetan plateau, taking over duties from ethnic Han soldiers in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) who have trouble coping with the cold temperatures and thin air of Tibet.
India has documented a slight decrease in the number of confirmed Chinese coronavirus cases between the end of last week and Monday as well as increasing recovery rates, a peculiar trend compared to the rapid spread of the omicron variant of the disease almost everywhere else.
The government of India on Monday effectively froze the funding of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity, a move that may have been intended to placate Hindu mobs rampaging against Christmas celebrations.
The video shows a masked man who says he is a Sikh named Jaswant Singh Chail vowing to assassinate the Queen as revenge for a 1919 massacre.
2021 saw Christian populations persecuted in countries around the world, usually without attracting a great deal of headline media coverage.
A mob of Sikhs beat a man to death inside the Golden Temple, one of the most revered shrines in Sikhism, in Amritsar, India.
Police in the western Indian state of Gujurat are investigating a women’s shelter operated by a Mother Teresa-founded charity for allegedly “hurting Hindu religious sentiments and luring young girls to convert to Christianity,” the news site OpIndia reported Wednesday.
The Chief of India’s Armed Forces, General Bipin Rawat, died on Wednesday when the military helicopter he was traveling in crashed in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the Indian Air Force said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met on Monday in New Delhi to solidify over two dozen trade and arms deals between their respective countries, including a pledge to boost annual bilateral trade to $30 billion by 2025.
The government of India’s national capital territory, Delhi, ordered all schools and colleges in the city to close on Friday until further notice citing air pollution marking the second such mandate in less than three weeks.
India’s western district of Aurangabad imposed mandates in recent days prohibiting residents unvaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus from purchasing fuel or groceries, the Times of India reported on Tuesday.
At least 50 Christian “house churches,” or private Christian worship services held inside a person’s home, were recently forced to halt operations in central India’s Madhya Pradesh state after a local district issued an order banning the gatherings, the Christian Post, an online newspaper, reported Monday.
China’s northwestern city of Hotan recorded “the worst average air quality” in the world in 2020, India’s Business Standard newspaper reported Tuesday citing data from the air quality tracker IQAir.
India’s government announced Friday it would repeal three “farmers laws” passed last year to reform the country’s agricultural sector after they prompted a year of protests and unrest, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.
The U.S. State Department issued a travel advisory for India on Monday warning Americans to exercise “increased caution” when visiting the country in part due to a rising risk of violent crime including “rape,” the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported Wednesday.
Indian officials on Wednesday announced six of the eleven coal-fired power plants around New Delhi have been shut down in a bid to reduce air pollution, which has grown so oppressive that schools are closed, construction work has been banned, and a full lockdown of the city is under consideration.
The government of Delhi, India, on Monday ordered all schools in the city to close for a week in an effort to prevent children from exposure to “dangerously high” levels of air pollution across the national capital, Agence France-Press (AFP) reported.
Indian Gen. Bipin Rawat, the chief of India’s defense staff, told reporters on Friday that although China has recently built villages along its unmarked Himalayan boundary with India, the outposts are “well within” the Chinese side of the border, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.
India said Tuesday it has deployed 5,000 extra troops to Kashmir — an already heavily militarized region — in an effort to quell ongoing violence in the disputed territory, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
Health authorities in northern India’s Kanpur city recorded 98 new cases of Zika on Tuesday as the community continues to battle an outbreak of the mosquito-borne illness that sparked in October, India’s Mint newspaper reported.
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) conducted multiple drills across China’s western border with India over the past week, while the PLA’s eastern theater command carried out exercises near Taiwan on Tuesday.
Police in India’s northeastern Tripura state have launched criminal cases against 102 Twitter account holders for allegedly “spreading fake and distorted information” that police say incited mob attacks on local buildings affiliated with Muslim residents in October, Asian News International (ANI) reported Saturday.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland on Monday that his country will target “net zero” carbon emissions by the year 2070. However, Modi said this goal was only attainable if wealthy countries contributed at least a trillion dollars toward international climate change programs.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited Pope Francis to “visit India” during his hour-long meeting with the pontiff in the Vatican this weekend.
Indian official Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister for the state of Uttar Pradesh, warned on Monday that India would launch airstrikes against the Taliban if it makes a move against Indian territory.
The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue has published a message wishing Hindus a happy feast of Deepavali (Diwali), which represents the victory “of light over darkness.”
Pope Francis received Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Vatican on Saturday, the first encounter between the two leaders.
India on Wednesday conducted a test launch of its Agni-5 missile, a nuclear-capable weapon whose 3,125-mile range is sufficient to hit any potential target in China. According to the Indian government, the test missile landed with a “very high degree of accuracy” in the Bay of Bengal.
India’s secretary for the environment, R.P. Gupta, told reporters on Wednesday that his government will not commit to a “net zero” target for carbon emissions.
An unofficial report commissioned by India’s Congressional Research Service (CRS) recently concluded that India’s military “cannot operate effectively without Russian-supplied equipment,” the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported Wednesday.
As Joe Biden and 13 cabinet members head to the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, coal mines are making a comeback in the U.S.
An Indian diplomat’s microphone conspicuously cut out during a United Nations (U.N.) transport conference in Beijing last week just as the envoy began to criticize China’s infrastructure-building Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported Wednesday.
New Delhi has allegedly delayed committing supplies of Covaxin, India’s first state-made Chinese coronavirus vaccine, to a World Health Organization (W.H.O.) vaccine drive after the W.H.O. on Monday said it refused to “cut corners” in granting the inoculation emergency use approval, Reuters reported Tuesday.
An Indian man has received a double life sentence after he was found guilty of murdering his wife with a venomous cobra.
A group representing millions of Indian retailers on Thursday demanded a government investigation of Amazon.com following a Reuters report that accused the online retail behemoth of manipulating search results to privilege its own knockoff brands over Indian retail merchandise.
A recent report claims that internal Amazon documents show that the company created knockoff items and manipulated search results to promote its own product lines in India.
United Airlines is prohibited from placing employees with religious and medical exemptions on unpaid leave until October 26.
Nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan died in a Pakistani military hospital on Sunday at the age of 85, apparently a victim of the Wuhan coronavirus or one of its comorbidities. He was celebrated by Prime Minister Imran Khan as a “national hero” for turning Pakistan into a “nuclear weapon state.” Left unmentioned in the PM’s eulogy was AQ Khan’s role as a dangerous proliferator who sold nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea, and Libya.
A delegation of Indian Christian leaders met with federal ministers this week to request the repeal of “anti-conversion” laws, which they say unfairly target Christians for persecution.
