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India Uncovers Foreign Network Funding Christian Ministry

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May 2, 2026

Last week, India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) found a foreign network using U.S.-based debit cards to fund religious activities in the country’s tribal areas.

ED investigators claimed that nearly INR 950 million ($10 million) entered India through ATM withdrawals made with foreign debit cards during the six months from November 2025 to April 2026. Part of the funds were allegedly used for Christian missionary-linked operations in tribal dominated states like Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand.

The probe has focused on two districts in Chhattisgarh, Bastar and Dhamtari, where the agency said nearly INR 65 million ($685,000) was spent on religious outreach and associated activities by people linked to The Timothy Initiative (TTI), with extensive digital financial trails and suspected regulatory violations.

TTI is a global evangelical ministry focused on multiplying churches and developing leaders through a disciple-making model based on 2 Timothy 2:2.

According to ED officials, TTI is not registered under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA), yet foreign funds were allegedly used to support on-the-ground operations. Officials are now examining whether this constituted a direct violation of India’s foreign funding and anti-money laundering laws, media reports have said.

Truist Bank, based in the U.S., allegedly issued the debit cards. They were found in the possession of a foreign national who was detained after entering the country via Bangalore International Airport in southern India.

The foreign national, “Jose Bell,” was intercepted by immigration authorities and searched following a lookout circular issued by ED after money laundering investigations into unusual cash transactions using foreign debit cards in India traced them to him.

During the search, the immigration authorities recovered 24 foreign debit cards from Bell’s possession.

ED investigators suspect these cards were used to withdraw large amounts of cash from ATMs across India in a structured manner to avoid scrutiny and bypass formal financial reporting systems. The money was channeled to local organizations and people associated with TTI operations.

The ED has now linked the funding of the missionary activities to India’s national security because the money was spent in the states of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand — areas where the government is trying to curb armed militancy perpetrated by left-wing extremists.

In a statement, the ED has categorically said, “Such emergence of a parallel cash-based economy in left-wing extremism-affected areas poses a serious threat to security and financial integrity of India and can facilitate the movement of illicit funds for unlawful activities.”

The ED is a premier economic intelligence and law enforcement agency in India, functioning under the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance. It investigates money laundering and violations of foreign exchange laws, including the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, and the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), 1999.

The agency has sweeping powers, with a primary mandate to combat money laundering, enforce foreign exchange regulations, and pursue fugitive economic offenders.

ED said its search raids on April 18 and 19 covered six locations across the country. During the raids, officials tracked repeated ATM withdrawals allegedly made using the foreign debit cards.

The agency also found an online billing and accounting platform used to record these cash withdrawals.

During the raids, the ED seized INR 4 million ($42,000) in cash, electronic devices, and digital records. Investigators also collected documents that may help establish the financial chain, beneficiary network, and end use of funds.

According to media reports, officials indicated that the case may involve a larger, organized money-laundering structure with interstate and international links. The agency is also examining the roles of intermediaries, local facilitators, and financial handlers connected to TTI’s network.

Officials are assessing whether the funds were used solely for religious expansion or whether broader local influence operations were attached to them.

The ED probe has also raised questions about the monitoring of foreign-linked religious funding in conflict-prone districts, and the matter is likely to figure in wider government updates and internal security reviews.
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Indian court says Christian woman can file for divorce where she lives

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Church leaders have welcomed a ruling by a provincial top court in southern India allowing a Christian woman to seek dissolution of her marriage in a family court where she currently resides after moving out of her matrimonial home.

The Kerala High Court’s Aug. 19 ruling came on an appeal filed by a Christian woman seeking legal separation from her husband due to domestic violence.

The woman, who resides at her parental home in Kerala state’s Wayanad district, had challenged a family court order directing her to file her application in Kasargod district, where her estranged husband and his family live.

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The British-era Indian Divorce Act of 1869, which governs judicial separation and marriage dissolution, among other things, for Christians in India, makes it mandatory for women to approach a family court in the place where “the marriage was solemnized, or the husband and wife reside or last resided together.”

In her appeal to the High Court, the Christian woman argued that this restriction resulted “in serious prejudice to Christian women who intend to file for divorce.”

The woman had earlier challenged the family court order before a single bench of the Kerala High Court on the grounds that she was not in a position “to travel long distances, in protracted litigations in a hostile jurisdiction.”

She pointed out that women were allowed to approach family courts where they resided under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, as well as the Special Marriage Act, 1954, which enables marriages between individuals of any religion, caste, or nationality, but not under the law governing Christian marriages.

The single-judge bench, in a June 30 ruling, agreed with her contentions but refused to grant her relief, holding that amending the law was the only solution and leaving it to the Indian Parliament to decide.

The judge, however, directed that the order be sent to the federal government, recommending it to amend the 1869 law.

The High Court’s division bench of Justices A K Jayasankaran Nambiar and Preeta A K, whom she approached later, allowed her appeal.

It ruled that she could file her application before a family court “having jurisdiction over the place where she is currently residing, even if that place is different from where the marriage was solemnized or where the couple last lived together.”

Church leaders hailed this Aug. 19 ruling as a “landmark decision” based on “a wise interpretation of a contentious clause.”

Father Ebigin Arackal, secretary to the Commission for Canon Law of the Kerala Region Latin Catholic Bishops’ Council, said, “We are glad that the top court, through its wise interpretation of a contentious clause, has ended decades-old discrimination against Christian women.”

Aleykutty P T, a lawyer in Kerala’s Idukki district, said Christian women were often forced to travel to places where their husbands were based, which made them insecure and sometimes even posed a threat to their lives.

“Now with this order, they can obviously choose a place where it’s safer and they get support,” she told UCA News on Aug. 20.

Govind Yadav, a lawyer at the Supreme Court in New Delhi, said this order for Kerala can become a precedent for other states to follow.

“But as long as the federal government fails to amend the colonial-era law, this discrimination against Christian women will continue,” he added.

Christians make up 2.3 percent of India’s more than 1.4 billion people; about 80 percent of whom are Hindus.
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