Christian families in Pakistan’s Punjab province were seeking justice Saturday, April 11, after men suspected of raping a Christian girl were acquitted and a baby girl was taken away from her Christian father, allegedly for religious reasons.
A Pakistani widow wanted to know Monday, April 6, why authorities allegedly let her imprisoned Christian husband die of asthma in Pakistan’s Punjab province, while a father there complained that his Christian son was detained on “false” charges.
An impoverished father was no longer expecting justice Thursday, April 2, over a month after his Christian son was killed in Pakistan’s troubled Pubjab province for “refusing to convert to Islam”, the latest in a series ofanti-Christian incidents in the region.
Human rights investigators have urged India’s government to tackle extremist groups and to improve protection of the country’s Christian minority after “the most severe anti-Christian violence seen in post-independence India,” which killed scores of people and displaced thousands, mainly in the states of Orissa and Karnataka.
Abducted Chinese Christian human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng was missing 50 days on Thursday, March 26, amid “increasing concern for his life,” human rights investigator said.
Pakistani police have detained five Muslim militants for their alleged involvement in a shooting spree at a Presbyterian Church, which killed at least one woman and injured several worshipers, a key investigator told Worthy News Saturday March 21.
Thousands of North Korean Christians have received food and Christian education from a major Western organization, despite fresh attempts by North Korea’s leadership to crackdown on foreign aid, Worthy News established Wednesday, March 18.
The executive branch of the European Union is “closely monitoring” the case of detained Vietnamese Christian Puih H´Bat amid mounting concerns over her whereabouts, Worthy News learned Saturday, March 14.
A Christian teacher says he has been dismissed and two students suspended from an academy in Pakistan’s Punjab province over allegations they “humiliated Islam” and “blessed the Jewish descendants” of Abraham, the Biblical arch-father of the people of Israel.
Christian rights activists were hopeful Wednesday, March 11, that they would be able to “free” a Christian teenager who was allegedly abducted by a Muslim man last year in Pakistan’s Punjab province, and forced to marry him.
A Christian chief of a major hostel for nursing students in the Pakistani city of Lahore faced possible dismissal Wednesday, March 11, after she already receiving death threats from Muslim colleagues and militants for allowing Christian students to pray and worship on the hostel’s premises, a Christian rights and advocacy group said.
One person was killed and at least 11 injured when Muslim militants opened fire on Christian worshipers during a prayer service of a Presbyterian Church in Pakistan’s Punjab province, Christian rights investigators and police confirmed Friday, March 6.
A Muslim man in Pakistan kidnapped, raped and forced a 13-year-old girl to convert to Islam and marry him at gunpoint, the latest in “growing trend” of attacks against Christian women in the country and other Islamic nations, Christian rights investigators told Worthy News Thursday, March 5.
An impoverished father of a young Christian woman was still knocking at the doors of Pakistan’s justice system Sunday, March 1, a year after his daughter was kidnapped by Muslim gunmen who apparently tried to “convert” her to Islam.
Degar Montagnard Christians and other believers in several areas of Vietnam’s Central Highlands faced another day of persecution Friday, February 27, after at least one Christian peasant was hacked to death by security forces and an angry mob, missionary workers and a key official told Worthy News.
There was concern Tuesday, February 24, over reports of new Muslim violence against Pakistani Christians, which included a murder, rape, and kidnappings of Christians in Pakistan’s Punjab province and other areas, sometimes with support from authorities, local residents and rights investigators said.
The Christian head of a hostel and two Christian students from a nearby medical college in Pakistan’s Punjab province have been expelled after Islamic extremists wanted to kill them on “false” charges of “desecrating the Koran”, seen as a holy book by Muslims, Worthy News established Monday, February 23.
Christians in India’s volatile state of Orissa feared more violence Sunday, February 22, after a Christian man was killed and hard-line Hindus forced nearly two dozen Christian families to “convert” to Hinduism, local residents and rights investigators said.
A Bangladeshi pastor and his wife faced more death threats Friday, February 20, after pressing charges against Muslims of robbery and rape, Christian rights activists said.
A 13-year old impoverished Christian girl in Pakistan’s Punjab province was recovering Thursday, February 19, after she was gang raped at gun point by five Islamic extremists, her family told Worthy News.