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.
An untold number of Christians were among nearly 1,000 civilians massacred in renewed violence on Syria’s western coast before the government announced a ceasefire.
As a measure targeting child marriages in Pakistan languishes in political limbo, girls as young as 10 in minority religious groups continue to be abducted, forced to convert to Islam and marry or sold into sex slavery.
Even though an Indonesian congregation’s construction plan has the support of local residents, the building project is encountering unexpected pushback.
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