Media outlets Christian Daily International-Morning Star News report that Chaudhry Abdul Aziz, justice of the Lahore High Court, resigned for “personal reasons” — effective immediately — on March 6.
In a move Feb. 12 seen as a human rights victory, Afzal Baig, a civil judge in Bahawalpur, invalidated the Muslim marriage of 25-year-old Shahida Bibi.
The Pakistani woman’s ordeal began Jan. 11 when co-worker Muhammad Asif Sadiq offered to take her to a place to enroll in a government assistance program, she told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News.
A relative of the 75-year-old widow incited a group of Muslims after the woman put faith in Jesus during an open-air gospel preaching Feb. 15, a source told Morning Star News.
Police rescued a 12-year-old Catholic girl who had been abducted two months prior by a neighbor and forced to convert to Islam and to marry the captor.