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.
A husband, wife and one of their four children were brutally slain in India because of their Christian faith, which one alleged assailant apparently believed had caused his own daughter’s illness.
A blind Christian falsely accused of blasphemy has been denied bail in Pakistan, despite inconsistencies in the case presented against him, his attorney said.
Pakistani judges have ordered police to find and present to the court a kidnapped girl and her abductor.
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