Recent incidents of deadly torture and of abductions that result in forced marriage indicate the daily risk of persecution that some religious minorities face in Pakistan.
A local government’s forcible closure of a worship site earlier this year has been overturned in a surprising court decision in Indonesia.
Approximately 45 individuals from 10 Christian families were recently expelled from Durandarbha village in India’s Chhattisgarh state, reports Morning Star News.
Masked gunmen ambushed and robbed a couple, tied the husband to a tree and gang-raped his wife upon learning that they are Catholic.
A Christian accused of touching a “sacred” text with “unclean hands” was attacked by a co-worker, who slashed the Christian’s throat.
A judge in Pakistan has given the death penalty to a man convicted of the 2023 murder of a Christian.
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.
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