India questioned how issues such as the brutal repression of the Ahmadiyya community, the large-scale refoulement of the ...

A US federal government commission has flagged the alleged worsening of religious freedom in India and called for it to be designated as a “Country of Particular Concern”. There were no immediate ...

The US agency report had alleged that 'religious freedom conditions in India continued to deteriorate' in 2025 ...

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 ...

(RNS) — US politicians are under increasing pressure to account for their courtship of Indian Prime Minister Modi, the leader of a strategically important ally and the world's largest democracy. (RNS) ...

US Commission Calls for Action Against RSS A recent report from a US panel has suggested that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ...

CHENNAI, India — Despite India’s millennia-old history of nonreligious movements, most atheists and rationalists choose to keep quiet about their skepticism of faith — it’s easier and far less risky ...

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 ...

Demands for official recognition of the Sarna tribal religion have intensified in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand following the federal government’s nod last month to recording citizens’ caste ...

Suki Kwon, professor of art and design, threw prayers to the wind at the 2023 Art for Change International Artist Residency in India. At the foothills of the Himalayas, Kwon, Graul Endowed Chair in ...