
According to sources, Hindu extremists in northern India disrupted a house church service, interrogated a pastor and signalled police to arrest him and his wife on baseless charges of fraudulent conversion.
According to sources, Hindu extremists in northern India disrupted a house church service, interrogated a pastor and signalled police to arrest him and his wife on baseless charges of fraudulent conversion.
Police in Pakistan have found a 14-year-old Christian girl who was allegedly kidnapped and forced to marry and convert to Islam, but a court on Thursday rejected her family’s attempt to recover her, ruling that Islam gives mental capacity more importance than age in such cases.
Last week, the Supreme Court of Pakistan declined to intervene in efforts to end the abduction and forced conversion/marriage of minor Christian girls in the country.
The Lahore High Court has upheld a ruling in Pakistan granting custody of a 13-year Christian girl to a Muslim man accused of kidnapping her and then forcing her to marry him and convert to Islam.
Last month a court in Pakistan handed Shahid Gill’s 13-year-old daughter into the custody of a 30-year-old Muslim man named Saddam Hayat. Hayat and six others allegedly took Nayab from her home, converted her to Islam and forced her to marry Hayat.
Last month, a Christian employee’s Muslim supervisor reportedly sent people to kill him in eastern Uganda after he refused to convert to Islam.
All but 10 Christians fled a central India village after followers of tribal deities threatened to kill 10 Christian families if they refused to participate in a “re-conversion” ceremony back to their ancestral religion.
A 13-year-old Pakistani girl who was previously reported missing by her parents has been revealed to have reportedly been forced to convert to Islam and marry a Muslim man.
A 12-year-old girl who was reportedly kidnapped and forcibly converted from Christianity to Islam was returned home this week.
A 12-year-old Catholic girl who was reportedly kidnapped, forced to convert to Islam and raped, will likely be returned to her kidnappers.