In the serene hill capital of Aizawl, where church bells and hymns are as much a part of everyday life as the mist over the mountains, a storm has been gathering. It is not a storm of rain or wind, but of trust, fear, and the difficult relationship between religious institutions and the laws of the state. On Friday, the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party in Mizoram accused some church leaders of spreading “incorrect” information about proposed changes to the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, better known as FCRA, and of misleading the public in the process. The accusation came at a…

For months, a quiet but deliberate storm has been building in Poland’s information space. Russian operatives, Polish officials and independent researchers now say, are aggressively exploiting a painful historical dispute between Warsaw and Kyiv over World War Two massacres in order to drive a wedge between Poland and Ukraine. The campaign, largely carried out in Polish on social media, is not just about the past. It is also aimed at stoking public anger against Ukrainian refugees, deepening fatigue with the war, and feeding the rise of far-right politics ahead of Poland’s closely contested parliamentary elections in 2027. At the heart…