LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Police in Pakistan are refusing to arrest Muslims who attacked a Catholic family and seized their farm land, and officers also damaged property, sources said. Shahnaz Yousaf, a resident of Chak 694/36 GB village in Toba Tek Singh District, Punjab Province, said that dozens of armed Muslims […]
Police Help Assailants Seize Christians’ Land in Pakistan
Officers damage property and refuse to arrest attackers.
May 3, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
Bill in Pakistan Would Outlaw Child Marriages
Christians hope it will help prevent forced marriages/conversions.
May 1, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A bill designed to prevent child marriages in Pakistan’s most populated province has raised hope for protection of Christian girls and others from Muslims abducting and forcibly marrying and converting them, sources said. The Punjab Province government on Thursday (April 25) submitted the draft of the Punjab Child […]
Girl Kidnapped, Forcibly Converted/Married in Pakistan
He had taken 15-year-old daughter out of school to protect her.
April 25, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A Christian father in Pakistan who took his 15-year-old daughter out of school to protect her from harassment by a Muslim is now trying to free her from kidnapping and forcible marriage/conversion by the same man, he said. “It’s been nearly two months now that I’m desperately searching […]
Court in Pakistan Orders Change in Legal Marriage Age
Different minimums for males and females ruled discriminatory.
April 24, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A high court in Pakistan last week ordered a provincial government to remove gender-based age distinction in its child marriage law, a move aimed at deterring forced conversions and forced marriages of girls, sources said. Lahore High Court Justice Shahid Karim on April 15 declared as “discriminatory” Punjab […]
Christian Leaders Are Attacked with Swords in Northern India
Sikh warrior group warned them against worship, conversions.
April 22, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A group belonging to a Sikh warrior order last week attacked a pastor and another Christian with swords and knives in northern India’s Punjab state for leading church worship in their village. Four Nihang Sikhs, who as members of the traditional warrior group are permitted to carry such weapons, attacked […]
Pakistan Told to Address Forced Marriages, Conversions of Girls
Christians and those of other minority religions are vulnerable.
April 12, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – U.N. human rights experts on Thursday (April 11) called on Pakistan to make legal changes in light of continued vulnerability of women and girls of minority faiths to forced marriages and religious conversions. The U.N. special rapporteurs demanded Pakistan raise the legal age for girls to marry to […]
Christian Laborer in Pakistan Shot for Requesting Wages
Muslim employers beat him with iron rods.
April 5, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Muslim farm owners in Pakistan on March 23 beat a Christian laborer with iron rods and shot him in the leg for requesting his wages owed him, sources said. Waqas Masih, a 42-year-old farm laborer in Chak No. 8 Panj Garaiyan Kamalpur village in Faisalabad District, Punjab Province, […]
Family of Slain Christian in Pakistan Receives Death Threats
Armed, Muslim relatives of alleged killer barge into home.
April 3, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Muslim relatives of the alleged killer of a 20-year-old Christian in Pakistan are threatening the victim’s family with death if they do not drop charges, sources said. Muhammad Zubair initially confessed to killing Farhan Ul Qamar in his house in Talwandi Inayat Khan village, Pasrur tehsil of Sialkot […]
Christian Couple in India Sentenced to Prison
Pastor and wife wrongly convicted of ‘forcible conversion,’ he says.
April 3, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A Christian couple in India has been sentenced to prison after Hindu extremists instigated a false case of forcible conversion against them, sources said. A woman they are accused of pressuring denied in court that the Christians tried to forcibly/fraudulently convert her or her husband, but Pastor Ramesh Ahirwar and […]
Arson Suspected in Church Fire in Pakistan
Muslim threatened congregation would not celebrate Easter.
April 1, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Christians suspect a Muslim who vowed to keep them from celebrating Easter was behind a fire allegedly set to their church building on Saturday (March 30) in Rawalpindi District, Pakistan. The Rev. Adeem Alphonse of the United Presbyterian Junior Church in Gujar Khan tehsil said the fire […]