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Pakistan: Young Christian Girl Abducted and Forced into Islamic Marriage

by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent (Worthy News) – A 16-year-old Christian girl has been kidnapped from her home in Punjab Province, Pakistan, and forced into marriage with the Islamic man who abducted her, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. With an increasing number of young non-Muslim girls being abducted and forced into Islamic marriages, Pakistan ranks 7 on the Open Doors World Watch List 2024 of the top 50 countries where Christians are persecuted. Diya Iftikhar was abducted from he