LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – The Lahore High Court has upheld a ruling in Pakistan granting custody of a 13-year Christian girl to a Muslim accused of kidnapping her, forcibly marrying her and converting her to Islam. Setting aside her parents’ pleas that Nayab Gill was underage and hence could not legally marry or change […]
High Court in Pakistan Upholds Girl’s Forced Marriage, Conversion
Custody of 13-year-old ‘wife’ granted to Muslim father of four.
July 7, 2021 By -
Pastor in Northern India Killed for His Faith, Sources Say
Ferocity of attack indicates anti-Christian motive, wife and Christian leaders say.
July 4, 2021 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A suspected criminal recently released on bail in northern India killed a pastor on Wednesday (June 30) for sharing the “love and forgiveness of Christ” with him, sources said. Sonu Kashyap, a Hindu of Sangoi village in Karnal District, Haryana state, attacked pastor Vinod Kumar with a wooden roof truss […]
Death Threats Force Christian to Abandon Job Promotion
Muslim personnel at a hospital attack again in Pakistan.
June 29, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Riaz Gill was working in his office at one of Karachi, Pakistan’s biggest government hospitals last week when a group of Muslim doctors stormed in and attacked him. “How can a Chuhra and Bhangi dare to work on the same level as us?” the assailants said, using the pejorative terms […]
Life Sentence Upheld for Christian in Blasphemy Case
Islamist pressure again appears to influence judges in Pakistan.
June 27, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A court in Rawalpindi, Pakistan upheld the life sentence of a Christian convicted of sending blasphemous text messages in spite of the prosecution’s manipulated evidence and failure to establish his involvement, his lawyer said. Zafar Bhatti, 56, had been handed the life sentence, which in Pakistan is 25 years, on […]
Christian Families Driven into Jungles of Eastern India
Police advise them to renounce Christ, victims say.
June 25, 2021 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Tribal animists forced more than 50 Christians from three villages to flee their homes and take shelter in the jungles of eastern India last month. The Christians belong to 13 tribal families of Rayagada District, Odisha state who have been stranded in the jungle without proper shelter, food, water and […]
Another 13-Year-Old Girl Forced to Marry/Convert to Islam
A judge, shelter again appear complicit in crime, sources say.
June 21, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Tears rolled down Shahid Gill’s face as he recalled the day last month when a court in Pakistan handed his 13-year-old daughter into the custody of a 30-year-old Muslim man. Gill, a Roman Catholic, works as a tailor in Gujranwala city, some 150 kilometers (93 miles) from Lahore. His daughter, […]
Acquitted Christian Couple, Attorney Fear for their Lives
Islamic extremists in Pakistan call for their deaths.
June 15, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A Christian couple acquitted by a high court in Pakistan fear for their lives as Islamic extremists have started a campaign calling for their murders ahead of their yet unconfirmed release from jail, sources said. The Lahore High Court on June 3 overturned the 2014 conviction of Shagufta Kausar and […]
Christian Couple on Death Row in Pakistan Acquitted
Blasphemy charges based on false evidence, judges rule.
June 3, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – The Lahore High Court (LHC) today acquitted a Christian couple sentenced to death on charges of blaspheming Islam, their attorney said. Justice Shahbaz Ali Rizvi and Justice Tariq Saleem Sheikh accepted an appeal challenging the death sentence and acquitted Shagufta Kausar, 52, and her husband, 49-year-old Shafqat Emmanuel, on the […]
Pastor Seriously Wounded, Father Killed in Northern India
Tribal relatives arrested on murder charges.
June 3, 2021 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Relatives of a pastor in northern India killed his Christian father with axe and sword blows and seriously wounded the church leader and his brother for leaving tribal religion, sources said. While local media and police portrayed the May 18 attack in Rajasthan state as a dispute over land, Pastor […]
Pastor Contracts COVID-19 after Assault in Eastern India
Wife knocked unconscious, uncle injured – and criminally charged.
May 26, 2021 By -
(Update: On June 5, pastor Ramnivas Kumar died of COVID-19. The original story of May 26 follows.) NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A pastor in eastern India contracted COVID-19 while seeking treatment at hospitals where personnel were reluctant to admit him for injuries sustained in a Hindu extremist assault last month, sources said. Pastor Ramnivas […]