Record Rise in Pakistan Forced Conversion CasesOctober 18, 2021 — 10/18/2021 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – The People's Commission for Minorities’ Rights (PCMR) and The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), two Pakistan-based organizations, have reported a record rise in forced...
High Court in Pakistan Continues to Rule in Favor of Underage MarriagesMay 27, 2021 — 5/27/2021 Pakistan – (International Christian Concern) Nena, a fourteen-year-old girl from Hyderabad City in Pakistan’s Sindh province, returned to her childhood home on May 1 after two years in captivity....
Nigerian Sentenced after Forcing Christian Teen into Islamic MarriageMay 29, 2020 — 05/28/2020 Nigeria (The Christian Post) – A Nigerian man was sentenced to 26 years in prison for abducting a Christian teenager from her home and forcing her into Islamic marriage...
Seven Women Kidnapped, Forcefully Married in Nigeria in March and AprilMay 15, 2020 — 05/15/2020 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – According to the Hausa Christians Foundation (HACFO), 6 young women and one older married lady were kidnapped, forcefully converted to Islam, and married off...
Kano State Governor Appears in Conversion Video of Teen GirlApril 23, 2020 — 04/23/2020 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – A video has been released, showing a young girl named Becky, converting to Islam in Nigeria. The girl, believed to be 14-16 years old,...
How Two Young Women Survived Extremism in Burkina FasoApril 21, 2020 — 04/21/2020 Burkina Faso (International Christian Concern) – Al-Jazeera has released an article from an interview that they did with a young woman whose family had been part of a kidnapping...
Nigerian Girl Escapes Captors Who Forced Marriage and ConversionMarch 17, 2020 — 03/17/2020 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – On March 12, the Hausa Christian Foundation (HACFO), released a statement that one young girl named Sadiya Amos was able to escape from kidnappers...
Archbishop in Northern India Confronts False Claims of Forced ConversionsFebruary 5, 2020 — 02/05/2020 India (International Christian Concern) – The Archbishop of India’s Uttar Pradesh state, Bishop Gerald John Mathias, his publicly denied the allegations of radical Hindu nationalists that Christians are committing...
Christian Activists in Pakistan Take Stand Against Abductions and Forced ConversionsDecember 20, 2019 — 12/20/2019 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – Christian activists in Pakistan are speaking out against the abduction and forced conversion of girls from the country’s minority communities. These groups are calling...
Eight Christians in Central India Attacked and Falsely Accused of Forced ConversionsDecember 12, 2019 — 12/12/2019 India (International Christian Concern) – Eight Christians in India’s Madhya Pradesh state have been attacked and taken into police custody in just the past seven days. In all of...
Indian Christian Leaders Speak Out Against Proposed Anti-Conversion LawNovember 27, 2019 — 11/27/2019 India (International Christian Concern) – Christian leaders in India’s Uttar Pradesh state have raised their voices against a proposed anti-conversion law. According to these leaders, the law will likely...
Pakistani Teenager Abducted and Forcibly ConvertedSeptember 29, 2019 — 09/29/2019 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – On September 16, Samra Bibi, a 14-year-old Christian Pakistani living in Faisalabad, was abducted by a radical Muslim man, Muhammad Ramiz, and four accomplices...
Anti-Conversion Bill Introduced by BJP Government in India’s Himachal Pradesh StateSeptember 2, 2019 — 09/02/2019 India(International Christian Concern) – Last week, the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh Jai Ram Thakur, a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), introduced a bill to the state’s...
Pakistani Christians Lament the Forceful Conversion and Marriage of Young GirlsAugust 3, 2019 — 08/03/2019 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) - Benish Imran, a 14-year old Christian Pakistani girl was kidnapped, and forcibly married and converted to Islam. On July 2, 2019, Benish disappeared from...
Blind Pastor in India Acquitted of False Forced Conversion Charges After Three Years in CourtMay 7, 2019 — 05/07/2019 India (International Christian Concern) – In 2016, Pastor Balu Saste, head pastor of a small village church in Madhya Pradesh, his wife, and eleven other Christians that had gathered...
NGO Leaders in Pakistan Protest Against Increasing Numbers of Forced ConversionsApril 4, 2019 — 04/04/2019 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – Last week, more than a dozen NGOs protested against the increasing number of incidents of minority women being kidnapped and forced to convert to...
