India, Oct. 6 -- When Tani Taba (name changed), a 17-year-old student from Ziro Valley, stood up during a village youth fellowship and shared how the Gospel helped him overcome the shame of being born into a "low ritual status" clan, the elders listened in silence. His story wasn't about conversion-it was about dignity. "I didn't change my tribe," he said. "I found a new way to love it."

Across Arunachal Pradesh, stories like Tani's have quietly reshaped the religious landscape-not through coercion, but through courage. In classrooms, hostels, and village gatherings, young people became the unlikely evangelists of a faith that offered healing, hope, and belonging. Their witness, more than any legal argument, rendered the state's anti-con...