On February 5, in a remote village in Punjab, Pakistan, a small Christian community gathered to commemorate a wedding. The crowd gathered around the church and celebrated the new bride and groom. But tensions quickly escalated when a band of Muslim extremists arrived on their motorcycles. The seven motorcyclists parked in […]
Fourteen people, including 11 women, were abducted from different parts of Faisalabad during the past 12 hours. A police spokesman said here on Saturday that unknown suspects abducted Nadia Bibi and her one-year-old son from Chak No. 204-RB, while 22-year-old Bismillah Bibi and her 25-year-old brother Ishtiaq were taken from Rajana […]
In a heart-wrenching case that exemplifies the dire plight faced by religious minorities in Pakistan, Masheel Rasheed, a 16-year-old Christian girl, was abducted, subjected to sexual assault, forcibly converted to Islam, and married to Abdul Sattar, her abductor. Masheel Rasheed is the youngest daughter of Rasheed Masih, the sole Christian family […]