When an elderly Christian woman in a village in India’s Tamil Nadu state was beaten by extremists, her attackers defended their actions by saying that she had defiled the road by walking on it during a Hindu festival. A dozen Christians who tried to rescue her were also injured when the extremists threw stones at … Continue reading JOHN PONTIFEX. Nationalism, authoritarianism and militant Islamism: across Asia, the faithful are facing a perfect storm… Continue reading »