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The US Commission for International Religious Freedom does not even make an effort to understand India’s diverse, pluralistic, and democratic ethos read more The criticism of India by the USCIRF is ...

USCIRF is now calling for India to be added to the U.S. government’s list of international religious freedom violators as a country of particular concern. Nuns from the Missionaries of Charity ...

USCIRF flagged the alleged worsening of religious freedom in India and called for it to be designated as a "Country of Particular Concern". India has strongly rejected a report by the US ...

New Delhi: India on Thursday rejected the latest report of the United States Comm-ission on International Religious Freedom (US-CIRF) that accused India of “severe violations” of religious ...

Most of the criticism comes from fairly obscure lobbies funded by Pakistan’s ISI or China to put out anti-India articles and reports. The latest report in question, from the United States Commission ...

(Anto Akkara via CNA) More than 160 violent attacks against Christians were reported in India this past year as laws passed by the country’s reigning Hindu nationalist government added to the threat ...

The USCIRF is an independent, bipartisan federal government entity established by the US Congress to monitor and report on religious freedom abroad. India on Thursday rejected a report by the US ...

Religion has been one of the oldest reasons for travel in India. While the tourism and hospitality industries are important to the south Asian country’s GDP, leisure travel, specifically makes ...

A United States 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". In its annual ...

chief Mohan Bhagwat on Saturday stated that ‘Dharma’ represents the essence of India and not religion. Addressing the Vijaya Dashami celebrations at the RSS headquarters in Nagpur, he noted that while ...

“We needed a sense of community. [Christianity] gave us hope.” Back then, becoming Christian came with risks from Hindu vigilante groups who considered this an affront to India’s majority religion.