Forced marriages on the rise in countries with high Christian persecution
Ninety per cent of countries featured in the 2021 World Watch List reported incidents of forced marriage.
Christian mother and daughter forced to live with jihadist
The mother was forced to convert to Islam and marry an Islam man. Later, her daughter was also forced to live with her stepfather.
Twenty-three forced conversion cases in twenty-three days in India
Twenty-three cases were registered under India’s newest and strictest anti-conversion law in its first twenty-three days.
Two Christian women forcefully converted by their employers in Pakistan
The family of two Christian sisters in Pakistan claim that the women were forcefully converted to Islam by their Muslim employers.
Five Christian families reconverted to Hinduism in India
On the 6th of December, twenty-three Christians were reconverted to Hinduism in a Ghar Wapsi ceremony.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister orders investigation into reports of forced conversion
An estimated one thousand Christian and Hindu women are abducted, forcefully married, and forcefully converted to Islam every year
A 13-year-old kidnapped girl was freed by the police in Pakistan
The girl was liberated from her kidnapper, and given back to her family, three weeks after being kidnapped.
A dozen Christian families beaten for their faith by radicals in India
In the last month, attacks on Christian communities in Chhattisgarh’s rural areas have dramatically escalated
Pakistani Parliamentary Committee discussed forced conversions with minorities
Sexual assaults and fraudulent marriages are used by perpetrators to entrap victims and authorities are often complicit.
Young Christians were banished from their home village in India
They were banished from their home village because they refused to renounce their Christian faith and convert to Hinduism.