Christians in Pakistan’s Punjab province were searching Thursday for an abducted minor girl, days after the provincial governor signed legislation raising the legal marriage age to 18 and criminalizing child marriage as a non-bailable offense.
As Ramadan, deemed a holy month by Muslims, began Wednesday, advocates warned that Christians and other religious minorities in parts of South Asia face potentially deadly consequences from blasphemy accusations amplified by social media and mob violence.
A series of alleged attacks and harassment targeting Christian communities in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, including at least one fatal assault, has raised renewed concern about the safety of religious minorities, advocacy group LEAD Ministries said.
The United States is preparing to deploy roughly 200 American troops to Nigeria in the coming weeks to assist in counterterrorism efforts, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.
Christian rights campaigners have welcomed Friday’s landmark decision by Pakistan’s Punjab province to criminalize child marriage by setting 18 as the minimum legal age for marriage. However, the killing of a Pakistani Christian shopkeeper in the same province cast a shadow over the celebrations.
Two pastors in eastern Uganda who were reportedly attacked by a group of Muslim extremists have been discharged from a hospital and are continuing to recover at home, Worthy News learned Sunday.
A court in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province is due to hear further evidence Wednesday in the rape case of a 14-year-old Christian girl, as separate allegations of violence against two Christian boys have renewed concerns about the safety of minority children in the Muslim-majority country.
Hungarian Methodist pastor Gábor Iványi told a Budapest court he would rather “accept a prison sentence than admit guilt” in what he considers a politically motivated case ahead of Hungary’s parliamentary elections.
Despite what advocates describe as decades of persecution, discrimination, and insecurity, Pakistan’s Christians remain steadfast in their faith and committed to peaceful coexistence, a leading Christian rights advocate said Friday.
A Christian pastor in southern Mexico has been expelled from his village after refusing to participate in rituals linked to traditional religious practices, Christians told Worthy News on Thursday.
Several Christian families in Pakistan’s Punjab province were recovering from injuries Sunday after what they described as “targeted attacks” by suspected Islamic extremists, reflecting broader pressure on Christians and other minorities in the Muslim-majority nation.
A Christian pastor detained in Nicaragua since July 2025 has been released from prison but placed under house arrest along with five other Christian believers, Worthy News established on Thursday.
An injured Christian pastor in eastern India says recalling Bible verses gave him strength to survive hours of brutal abuse by a Hindu mob that accused him of converting Hindus to Christianity.
In one of its first closely watched cases, Pakistan’s newly established Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) ruled that an underage Christian girl should remain with her “Muslim husband” despite concerns about her age and religious rights, Christians confirmed to Worthy News on Wednesday.
A prominent Pakistani Christian human rights advocate has warned that an increasing number of underage girls are being forced to wear the veil or burqa, calling the practice a form of “child radicalization” and ideological coercion.
Suspected armed bandits attacked a community in Nigeria’s north-central Niger State, police said, burning a police station, torching part of a church, and abducting several residents.
A prominent Christian lawyer has urged Pakistan’s government to intervene as a man accused of brutally assaulting a Christian woman and tearing her clothes in a Punjab province market was released within just 30 minutes of police detention, apparently due to his “contacts” with authorities, Christians said.
A Pakistani Christian laborer is recovering from his injuries after he was allegedly nearly burned alive by a suspected Muslim extremist for his faith in Christ in Pakistan’s Punjab province, highlighting ongoing threats faced by Christians and other minorities in the Islamic nation.
Four and a half years of difficult legal proceedings have ended for two Christian nurses in Pakistan’s Punjab province after both were acquitted of blasphemy charges, Christians told Worthy News Tuesday.
Reported abuses suffered by two Christian girls in Pakistan’s Punjab province have highlighted growing concern about the treatment of Christian women and children in the Islamic nation.