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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Kidnapper Wins Custody of 13-Year-Old Girl, Sources Say
High court refuses to heed evidence of forcible marriage.
March 27, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A high court in Pakistan on Monday (March 25) rejected a Christian woman’s attempt to recover her 13-year-old daughter, instead allowing the child to go with a Muslim who abducted, forcibly converted her to Islam and married her, sources said. Shakeel Masih’s daughter, Roshni Shakeel, was taken from […]
Unsafe Conditions Kill Christian Sewer Workers in Pakistan
Lack of protective gear takes two lives.
March 26, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News)– Rukhsana Asif, a Christian mother of two children in Faisalabad, Pakistan, was devastated when she learned that her husband and his cousin had died from poisonous gas while cleaning a clogged sewer manhole. Her husband, Asif Masih, was off work on March 17 when he received a call to […]