PAKISTAN: MUSLIM FORCES 12-YEAR-OLD GIRL TO CONVERT, MARRY HIM
Police ridicule Christian mother for kidnapping complaint; others demand money, labor.
LAHORE, Pakistan, June 4 (Compass Direct News) – The Christian mother of a 12-year-old girl in Punjab Province who was kidnapped, coerced into converting to Islam and forcibly married to a 37-year-old Muslim hopes to recover her daughter at a court hearing next week. The reaction of Pakistani law enforcement authorities to Sajida Masih’s complaint so far – ridiculing her and asserting that there is nothing she can do because her daughter is now a Muslim – does not encourage her hopes of recovering her daughter Huma at next Thursday’s (June 11) hearing. Masih said that Muhammad Imran abducted Huma at gunpoint on Feb. 23 from Hanif Kot village in Gujranwala district, forcibly converted her and then married her. Imran, father of three children, has since disappeared along with his first wife, children and new child-bride. Another land owner, Karamat Ali Saroyya, called Masih saying that Huma was in Muridke, but Masih and her lawyer were unable to find her there. Saroyya later demanded that Masih work his fields for one year to get her daughter back.
Find this story and more at www.compassdirect.org
Saturday, June 6, 2009
The Purpose
My name is Brianna and I was recently given the privelege of volunteering/ interning (i call it a volunteership ;) for an amazing non profit organization called Open Doors. This organization is dedicated to serving the persecuted church around the world and to making Americans aware of the awesome ways God is using the persecuted church. Not sure what the persecuted church is? Neither was I. Allow me to elaborate.
The persecuted church is not a specific, geographical place or concrete church. It refers to a group of Christians who are harrassed, beaten, ridiculed, arrested, condemned, shunned or killed by their government and fellow countrymen because of their faith. Open Doors serves persecuted Christians in 45 different countries by sending them Bibles, training their spiritual leaders, building and maintaining Christian communities and, more recently, assisting in basic needs like food and water. If you would like to learn more about this organization or the persecuted church in general, please visit their website www.opendoorsusa.org. To left of my main blog page you will also find links to several other blogs and websites that tell stories of the persecuted church.
The purpose of this blog is to share testimonies and stories of persecuted christians all over the world. We share these stories not so we can feel sorry for the persecuted, or angry at the persecutors, but so that we can see how God is using this tragedy for good and so we can continuosly give Him the Glory. I encourage you to read the stories posted here, share them with your friends, and even post stories of your own. By creating a greater awareness we can know better how to pray, how to serve and what to praise God for. Thank you for joining me on this journey.
The persecuted church is not a specific, geographical place or concrete church. It refers to a group of Christians who are harrassed, beaten, ridiculed, arrested, condemned, shunned or killed by their government and fellow countrymen because of their faith. Open Doors serves persecuted Christians in 45 different countries by sending them Bibles, training their spiritual leaders, building and maintaining Christian communities and, more recently, assisting in basic needs like food and water. If you would like to learn more about this organization or the persecuted church in general, please visit their website www.opendoorsusa.org. To left of my main blog page you will also find links to several other blogs and websites that tell stories of the persecuted church.
The purpose of this blog is to share testimonies and stories of persecuted christians all over the world. We share these stories not so we can feel sorry for the persecuted, or angry at the persecutors, but so that we can see how God is using this tragedy for good and so we can continuosly give Him the Glory. I encourage you to read the stories posted here, share them with your friends, and even post stories of your own. By creating a greater awareness we can know better how to pray, how to serve and what to praise God for. Thank you for joining me on this journey.
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