Arzoo Raja, a 13-year-old Catholic girl from Karachi, Pakistan, was abducted on October 13, forced to abandon her faith and marry her 44-year-old Muslim abductor, Ali Azhar, who also resides in Karachi. Last Saturday, October 24, a large group of Christians and civil society activists, led by two members of parliament, gathered in front of […]
The case of a Catholic girl from Madina Town, near Faisalabad has taken an unexpected turn after the defendant failed to appear in court. The 14-year-old Pakistani girl and her family continue her struggle to be free of the man who raped—and blackmailed her into marriage and religious conversion. A Rawalpindi court requested new evidence […]
In a moving interview which she gave to the international Catholic pastoral and Pontifical Charity, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Asia Bibi made a heartfelt appeal to Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on behalf of the religious minorities in the country, recalling in particular the terrible plight of the many underage Pakistani girls […]
Maira Shahbaz, the kidnapped Pakistani Christian girl at the recent center of international attention, has escaped from the home of Mohamad Nakash, the man who according to the Lahore High Court, is her legitimate husband. After her escape, she went to a police station to give her testimony, in which she also declared that she […]
Christians are viewed as second-class citizens in Pakistan. Insulted, discriminated against, oppressed, they are rarely given the opportunity to advance socially. Most Christians have to eke out a living in the most poorly paid jobs, often working as day labourers, in the brickworks, as road sweepers, garbage collectors, rickshaw drivers or domestic staff and generally […]
The campaign to free a 14-year-old Christian girl in Pakistan from the clutches of a man who abducted, held the young girl hostage in his home and forced her into marriage, lies in tatters after Lahore High Court unexpectedly decided in his favour. On Tuesday August 4, Judge Raja Muhammad Shahid Abbasi overturned an earlier […]
A 15-year-old young Christian girl, kidnapped and victim of sexual slavery, becomes pregnant The lawyer of the young girl’s family declared to Aid to the Church in Need (ACN): “Huma became pregnant because of sexual slavery and is not allowed to leave.” Abassum Yousaf, an attorney at the High Court of Sindh—the Pakistani province which […]
PAKISTAN The case of an abducted girl, 14, taken to High Court by her Christian family By John Pontifex, ACN International Adapted by Amanda Bridget Griffin, ACN Canada Published on the web, June 22, 2020 A Christian family in Pakistan has gone to the High Court in their fight to win back their 14-year-old […]
ACN News — COVID-19 Pakistan Christians in Pakistan are deprived of urgent aid By John Pontifex, ACN United Kingdom Adapted by Amanda Griffin, ACN Canada Published on line May 25, 2020 Pleas to government to provide domestic and sanitary workers with gloves and masks NGOs and Muslim leaders in Pakistan stand accused of refusing to give […]
Pakistan Supreme court – the only hope for Huma Younus Text by Marta Petrosillo, ACN International Adapted by Amanda Briget Griffin, ACN Canada Posted to website March 26, 2020 For the umpteenth time, no progress has been made in the case of Huma Younus, the 14-year-old Catholic girl abducted on 10 October last year in […]
