ICC Note:  A young girl in India was raped and brutally murdered last week after her family decided to convert from Hinduism to Christianity. Attacks against Christians and recently converts are common in India where the majority of citizens are predominantly Hindu and/or Sikh.

8/12/2018 India (Christian Post ) – A 9-year-old girl from an Indian family that had recently converted to Christianity was gang-raped and murdered Aug. 5 in Punjab state.

Anjali Masih was playing with her friends in the city of Gurdaspur, near the Pakistan border, when a group of men lured her away by showing her a guava.

She was then gang-raped and strangled with a telephone wire.

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