Indian Court Rules Christians Can Hold Home Prayer Meetings Despite Anti-Conversion Laws
An Indian court has ruled that Christians have the legal right to hold prayer meetings in their own homes — a significant religious liberty victory in a country where anti-conversion laws have been weaponized to harass, arrest, and intimidate believers for gathering to worship. The ruling pushes back against a pattern in which Hindu nationalist groups and local police have used vague anti-conversion statutes to raid home churches and detain pastors across India's most populous states. For India's estimated 30 million Christians — many of whom worship in house churches because they cannot afford dedicated buildings or face too much opposition to construct them — the ruling provides a measure of legal protection in a country that ranks among the most dangerous for believers worldwide.
Read Full Story at Christianity TodayAnd day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts.
— Acts 2:46
The early church was born in homes. When the first Christians gathered around tables and in living rooms to break bread and pray, they established a pattern of worship that has sustained the global church for two millennia — and that persecuted believers in India, China, Iran, and dozens of other countries continue to follow today. This ruling affirms what Acts teaches: the home is holy ground when God's people gather in it.