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Guarding culture or policing faith? Chhattisgarh High Court’s ‘social menace’ observation and the future of Article 25
While affirming Gram Sabha authority under the PESA Act to prevent “forced conversions,” the Chhattisgarh High Court’s ruling raises deeper concerns about the limits of religious liberty, evidentiary reasoning, and constitutional secularism in India’s tribal heartland
Review of 2022: A year of discrimination & violence experienced by India’s religious minorities
Religious minorities, especially Muslims and Christians, have experienced persistent stigmatisation and attack, with governments and law enforcement complicit in a culture of impunity
Hate Speech in Rajasthan spirals, polls at year end
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A trishul distribution event sees targeted hate speech against Christians
Prominent Muslim writers excluded from Kannada Sahitya Sammelana, allege scholars, alternate meet called
Several academics and senior writers have told The Hindu, New Indian Express snd The News Minute that the state has hundreds of Muslim Kannada writers, however, only a select few have been considered for the event.
Graves desecrated in Mumbai’s Mahim church, FIR filed
Over a dozen graves desecrated in Mahim’s St. Michael’s church even as BMC withdraws notices to vacate the 115 year-old Bandra cemetry
CJP moves NCM, writes to DGP Maharashtra against notorious hate offender Kalicharan
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In his inflammatory speech, Kalicharan had asserted that "Love-Jihad" may be cured by ingesting water that has had a wild boar tooth left in it overnight.
Muslim man thrashed for ‘walking with Hindu girl’: Karnataka
The Hindustan Times reports that, according to the police, the youth Afeed (20), from Kallugundi near Sullia, came with the minor girl to Kukke Subramanya temple on Thursday.
“Find a practical solution”, says SC as it stayed order for eviction of 50,000 people
The Uttarakhand High Court’s order, while looking at the legal aspects of the case, failed to look at the human side, as pointed out by the apex court, and did not even hear the affected parties in the case.
PM’s ‘deafening silence’ on attacks on Christians concerning, outfits protest such attacks
'The deafening silence of the Prime Minister on atrocities against Christians over a long period of time in different parts of the country is a notable, a matter of concern, said the Khasi Jaintia Christian Leaders Forum.
SC stays Uttarakhand HC Order, residents can’t be evicted in seven days
The Supreme Court has stayed a controversial order of...
Not an inch of our cemetery land, Mumbai Christians protest BMC demolition notice
A 115 year old cemetery with over 400 graves is threatened by a BMC takeover, protests Bombay Catholic Sabha
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