A legal advocacy organization is hailing as a positive step the recent order of a Pakistani high court to reopen a police investigation into a 13-year-old girl’s abduction, forced conversion to Islam and forced marriage to her kidnapper.
In a South Asian area of more than 100 million people, a stark reality shapes the work of local believers: there’s no place to buy Bibles. How are missionaries responding?
An amendment to an existing sacrilege law in one Indian state imposes penalties up to life imprisonment for offenses and establishes stricter enforcement.
LAHORE, Pakistan — A Christian father whose 14-year-old daughter was kidnapped and forced to marry one of the captors claims police are making no effort to return her to her family.
LAHORE, Pakistan – A family is facing persecution and financial hardship because authorities are defying a court order to change their religious designation to “Christian” in Pakistan’s national identity database.
A 14-year-old Christian boy’s employer is accused of keeping the boy from his family and of forcing him to convert to a certain religion.
A Christian farmworker appears to have been tortured to death by his employers, who then staged the scene to look like suicide.
Christian rights advocates are hailing a new law in one Pakistani province that sets the minimum age for marriage at 18, deems child marriage as “child abuse” and mandates punishment.
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