Editing Gloriavale Christian Community (section)

===Indian commune===
In 2015, [[TVNZ]]'s ''[[Seven Sharp]]'' programme reported that Hopeful Christian and other Gloriavale leaders had purchased land in the Indian state of [[Tamil Nadu]]. The community was settled by several young Gloriavale women from New Zealand and local Indian Christian converts.<ref>{{cite news |author1=[[TVNZ]] |title=Young Gloriavale women taken to a new branch in India |url=https://wwrn.org/articles/44475/ |access-date=3 April 2024 |work=World-Wide Religious News |date=1 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221002195859/https://wwrn.org/articles/44475/ |archive-date=2 October 2022}}</ref> According to the website Indiafacts, Gloriavale worked with the charity Smile Help Charity Trust in [[Andhra Pradesh]] to purchase land for their commune in Tamil Nadu's [[Cheranmahadevi]] region in the [[Tirunelveli district]] between 2011 and 2012. Gloriavale also registered a charity called the Christian Community Church to channel funds from New Zealand to their Indian commune.<ref>{{cite web |title=Is there a Gloriavale Commune in Southern Tamil Nadu? |url=http://indiafacts.org/is-there-a-gloriavale-commune-in-southern-tamil-nadu/ |website=Indiafacts |access-date=3 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240103070040/http://indiafacts.org/is-there-a-gloriavale-commune-in-southern-tamil-nadu/ |archive-date=3 January 2024 |date=7 May 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> In October 2021, the ''Hindu Post'' alleged that eight Indian children residing at the commune had been forcibly converted to Christianity.<ref>{{cite web |title=New Zealand's Gloriavale Christian Commune in Tamil Nadu |url=https://hindupost.in/world/new-zealands-gloriavale-christian-commune-in-tamil-nadu/ |website=Hindu Post |access-date=3 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240401133241/https://hindupost.in/world/new-zealands-gloriavale-christian-commune-in-tamil-nadu/ |archive-date=1 April 2024 |date=3 October 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In late March 2024, the [[TVNZ]] documentary series ''Escaping Utopia'' reported that Gloriavale had an offshoot commune in southern India consisting of five New Zealand women, their husbands and at least 32 children. The Indian commune is overseen by Overseeing Shepherd Faithful Stronghold, an Indian convert who had attended the Gloriavale school in New Zealand. The documentary alleged that members of the Indian commune had experienced sexual abuse. New Zealand Police confirmed they had received a formal letter on the matter. Human rights lawyer Deborah Manning expressed concerns about the welfare of the Gloriavale members abroad. In response, Gloriavale's Peter Righteous said that the New Zealand women had travelled to India and married of their own free will, and that they maintained contact with and visited their New Zealand relatives.<ref name="1 News Indian commune" /> According to Manning, children in the Indian commune lacked birth certificates and identity documents. Several government agencies including the [[Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment]] (MBIE), the Police, [[Oranga Tamariki]] and the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (New Zealand)|Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade]] (MFAT) confirmed they were aware of trafficking allegations at the Indian commune.<ref name="RNZ Indian commune">{{cite news |last1=Brown |first1=Tim |title=Authorities investigate allegations Gloriavale women trafficked to India |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/512849/authorities-investigate-allegations-gloriavale-women-trafficked-to-india |access-date=1 April 2024 |work=[[Radio New Zealand]] |date=27 March 2024}}</ref>