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  Mar 21, 2025

  Pakistani Christian teen languishing in jail after getting bail as ill father fights for son's freedom

  An 18-year-old Christian is still languishing in jail a month after winning bail in all three blasphemy cases against him as a trial court is delaying his release, his father said.

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  Mar 20, 2025

  Pakistan's deterioration of human rights condemned at United Nations event

  Religious freedom advocates strongly condemned deterioration of human rights in Pakistan at the 58th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, particularly continued abuse of the country’s harsh blasphemy laws and forced conversions of minority girls.

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  Mar 19, 2025

  Christian man kidnapped at gunpoint in midnight raid found dead

  A village head kidnapped along with seven other Christians in central Nigeria was reportedly found dead on Monday.

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  Mar 18, 2025

  'Justice': Woman sexually exploited as child, forced into Islamic marriage sees court victory

  In a significant legal victory against forced conversions and marriages in Pakistan, a civil court has annulled the marriage of a Christian woman who was given to a Muslim man as a child and coerced to convert to Islam and marry him, sources said.

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  Mar 17, 2025

  Christian man stabbed in Fulani attack sentenced to death by hanging for killing in self-defense

  The Supreme Court of Nigeria has upheld the death sentence for a Christian man who defended himself against an attack by Fulani herdsmen.

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  Mar 16, 2025

  12-year-old Christian girl kidnapped in Pakistan freed by police

  A 12-year-old Christian girl was reunited with her parents last week after being abducted two months ago by a Muslim neighbor who forcibly converted her to Islam and coerced her into marrying him, sources said.

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  Mar 14, 2025

  High court judge caught falsely charging Christians with blasphemy in entrapment ring resigns

  A high court judge in Pakistan resigned last week after a media report exposed his alleged close ties with a criminal gang falsely charging Christians and others with blasphemy, sources said.

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  Mar 9, 2025

  Christian man abducted, humiliated and paraded on donkey for gathering dead branches for kindling

  Muslim landowners in Pakistan abducted a Christian laborer, shaved his head and facial hair, blackened his face and paraded him on the back of a donkey for allegedly stealing wood from their property.

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  Mar 7, 2025

  Christian mother abducted, raped and forcibly married to Muslim man escapes captors

  A Muslim man in Pakistan who twice abducted a Christian mother has since raped her, fraudulently converted her to Islam and fabricated an Islamic marriage, sources said.

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  Mar 7, 2025

  Body of kidnapped priest slain by Islamic extremists found on Ash Wednesday

  A Catholic priest was kidnapped on Tuesday night in Kaduna state, Nigeria, where Fulani herdsmen and other Islamic extremist terrorists have been active. His corpse was found the next day, sources said.