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If you listen, the accounts of religious persecution against Catholics in India are difficult to ignore.
Many of those working with and for Catholics in the country have to speak carefully, and often with hesitation. The fear of retaliation is real — it shapes what can be said publicly and what must remain unsaid. But the consistency of their concerns across regions, ministries, lay and clerical lines, points to a reality that is becoming harder to dismiss: conditions for Catholics in India are worsening.
For those paying attention, their situation is getting more urgent week by week.
That concern is sharpened by a development now moving through India’s Parliament.
In March, the government introduced a bill to amend the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA), a law governing the receipt of foreign funding by non-governmental organizations. The FCRA has already been used to restrict Christian charities. The proposed amendment would go further, authorizing the government to assume control over the assets of organizations that lose their eligibility to receive foreign funding.
That authority would not be limited to financial restrictions. It would extend to the management and potentially the repurposing of
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