When the state begins to question belief, freedom of religion ceases to be a right and becomes a permission.” The recent Supreme Court ruling quashing a fabricated “forced conversion” case is ...

As Bangladesh debates large-scale constitutional reform, one issue in particular is beginning to echo a parallel debate taking place across the border in India. Two words are at the centre of this ...

NEW DELHI: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday backed RSS's suggestion to restore the Preamble of the Constitution, saying that this is the right time to remove the legacies of the ...

The Allahabad High Court ruled that claiming any religion as the 'only true religion' in India, a secular nation, could ...

JEDDAH — India is the fountainhead of many religions and civilizations. It has been a haven of refuge for all races and cultures. God's bounties were so abundant in India that India never had to ...

In conversation with Akeel Bilgrami, Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy and a faculty member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, and a renowned scholar of political ...

Justice Saurabh Srivastava, while rejecting the plea filed by Vineet Vincent Pereira, observed that such statements could ...

A state court in northern India has urged the government to maintain equal distance from all religions, emphasizing the need for an anti-conversion law to preserve public order and freedom. “The state ...

The Allahabad high court made the observation while declining to interfere in criminal proceedings, where a person claimed ...

As India prepares to elect a new federal government this spring, its Catholic bishops have urged citizens "to vote wisely" to help the country remain a secular and democratic republic. "We urge all ...

Christians have lauded India’s top court upholding the inclusion of the words “socialist” and “secular” in the preamble of the nation’s constitution. A division bench of Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna ...