According to a December 2024 survey by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, 49% of Adivasis in the state who ...

A new religion has the possibility of being added to India’s official roster of existing and practicing religions. The state government of Karnataka has granted a separate religion tag to the ...

Nirendra Dev analyzes how religious identity has superseded development in Indian politics, citing the BJP's recent Bihar ...

An important distinguishing and defining factor of India is its plurality, and an important unifying theme is its diversity. In this statement lies a self-evident truth about India; everything in ...

PUNE, India (RNS) — In the first week of April, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Vichar Manch, a group dedicated to the ideas of Indian freedom fighter Bhaghat Singh, announced its seventh atheism conference ...

GUDUTA, India — The ritual began with a thunderous roll of leather drums, its clamor echoing through the entire village. Women dressed in colorful saris broke into an Indigenous folk dance, tapping ...

LUCKNOW, India — An Indian state has approved an unprecedented uniform code for marriage, divorce, adoption and inheritance for Hindus, Muslims and other religious communities under new legislation ...

When JD Vance told a stadium of thousands he hoped his wife would one day be moved “by the Christian gospel” the same way he was, he inadvertently stepped into a contentious dialogue in India and ...

GRAND HISTORIC MASS-CONVERSION CEREMONY, proclaimed posters in a town by the Ganges. Loudspeakers blared that “many Christians tonight will perform a mass return to the religion of their souls.” Only ...

The rise in attacks by Hindu radicals against members of minority religions in India, primarily Christians and Muslims, is drawing concern across the country, with many calling for more concrete ...

India, which recently passed legislation that experts say is detrimental to Muslims, should be placed on the U.S. government’s list of most egregious religious freedom violators, a watchdog agency ...

Some say Christianity in India dates back to the earliest followers of Jesus in the first century C.E. Today, there are millions of Christians in the country, although they make up just 2.4% of ...