Indian Parliament Will Consider Criminalizing Religious Liberty

BJP MPs demand 10-year prison sentence for unregulated conversion

New Delhi, India: Nov. 5, 2015 — Two members of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced they will introduce bills in their respective houses of parliament to criminalize religious conversion … Read More

Congressman Honda’s Invitation of Indian PM Disturbs Human Rights Advocates

“Nothing short of a complete boycott will satisfy the voices Modi has silenced,” say protesters

San Jose, CA: Sept. 25, 2015 — A recent statement by Silicon Valley Congressman Mike Honda crediting the upcoming visit of Indian Prime Minister … Read More

Californians Warn San Jose City Council to Boycott PM Modi Visit

“No one should shake hands with a monster,” speakers tell council

San Jose, CA: Sept. 25, 2015 — “I must warn you that your presence places a stamp of approval on the record of a mass murderer,” Pieter Friedrich told … Read More

Google CEO’s Plans to Meet Indian Premier Spark Protest

Demonstrators call Prime Minister Modi a monster, chanting: “Shame on Google”

Mountain View, CA: Sept. 20, 2015 — As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans to tour Silicon Valley tech companies next week, marking his second visit to the … Read More

Alliance for Justice and Accountability Coordinates Coalition Protest of Modi

Modi reception in CA is designed for “rehabilitating his image as a pogrom-tainted politician,” say protesters

San Jose, CA: Sept. 16, 2015 — A coalition of South Asian Americans and others concerned that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming visit to … Read More

“Google, Shun Modi” South Asian Coalition Will Ask at Press Conference

Silicon Valley’s Googleplex to fete Indian Prime Minister as South Asian Americans question his human rights record

Mountain View, CA: Sept. 16, 2015 — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s plans to meet with executives at Google’s Mountain View headquarters when … Read More

August 2008 Anti-Christian Pogrom in India Saw “Rivers of Blood on the Road”

John Dayal on religious nationalism, massacres of minorities, and freedom of faith

New Delhi, India: August 25, 2015 — Indian journalist Dr. John Dayal, who recently visited Orissa to discover the current situation after the state was wracked … Read More

Indian Journalist Warns Underground Church in India “At Par” With China

Dr. Dayal discusses how his career as a journalist led to him becoming an activist after witnessing human rights violations of tribals, Muslims, Christians, and others. He says that, in 1997, “I came face to face with Christian persecution.”Read More

Protests Anticipated as Indian PM Modi Plans California Visit

“The Butcher of Gujarat in the USA is unsettling,” say NRI minorities

SAN JOSE, CA: July 25, 2015 — “Mr. Narendra Modi was deemed the Butcher of Gujarat after his state-sponsored genocide… killed thousands of Muslims,” warned activist Jada Bernard … Read More

Hunger-Striker Surat Singh Khalsa Rearrested Despite Worldwide Support

Supporters call arrests “torture by the Brahmanical Indian State”

LUDHIANA, PUNJAB: July 22, 2015 — As a delegation of senior officials representing the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) party in Punjab, India toured North America to woo diaspora … Read More