A court in Pakistan on Friday returned custody of a 16-year-old Christian girl to her parents after a Muslim man had kidnapped and forcibly converted and married her, sources said.
A coalition of 17 international human rights organizations is demanding Pakistan be suspended from the Commonwealth of Nations due its blasphemy laws and other rights violations.
A trial court in Pakistan has granted rare bail to a Christian arrested on blasphemy charges, her attorney said.
Fulani herdsmen killed two Christians in central Nigeria’s Benue state on Wednesday and two others in another part of the state on Oct. 3, local sources said.
Fulani herdsmen attacked a predominantly Christian village in central Nigeria, killing seven people, area residents said.
Muslim employers of a 17-year-old Christian who works at their gas company in Pakistan have forcibly converted him to Islam and are holding him in illegal custody, his mother said.
Fulani herdsmen and other “bandit” terrorists often allied with them killed more civilians in Nigeria over a four-year period than Islamic extremist groups Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), a new report states.
Muslims who abducted a 17-year-old Christian girl and gang-raped her for 10 days are threatening her family to pressure them to withdraw charges, even as police have failed to arrest most of the suspects, her father said.
A Christian mother of four children on Wednesday received the death sentence after a judge convicted her under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, her attorney said.
Church leaders and rights activists in Pakistan condemned the killing on Thursday of a Muslim in custody on charges of blasphemy.
