The girl was lured Jan. 9 from her home in Sialkot in Pakistan’s Punjab province, then forced into a van and taken away, her father told Christian Daily International and Morning Star News.
A Christian woman pregnant with her first child suffered a miscarriage after a village headman and his family members beat and strangled her.
A Christian woman was arrested on a charge of blasphemy that carries a life sentence if convicted.
Three Christians in India were taken into custody after they and their non-Christian luncheon hosts were assaulted by angry individuals.
For unspecified reasons, a local government in Uzbekistan is demolishing a Baptist church’s buildings.
A 14-year-old Pakistani girl is in hiding with her family after a perpetrator raped her and sought to convert her to Islam and marry her.
An 18-year-old woman held captive for five months and forced to convert to Islam and marry has been recovered through the aid of a schoolteacher in a different province.
During the first seven months of 2024, blasphemy cases in Pakistan spiked, more than tripling the full-year total for 2023, according to a human rights group.
