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13-year-old Maria Shahbaz. (Alliance Defending Freedom)

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Pakistan's top court to review ruling in Christian girl's forced marriage

Tessa Gervasini|Jul 17, 2026|3 Min Read

Pakistani Bishop Yousaf Sohan of Multan joins a protest rally in southern Punjab April 10, 2026, to condemn the forced conversion and marriage of minor girls from minority communities. He called for "justice for Maria" after the March 25 verdict of the Federal Constitutional Court that validated the forced Islamic marriage of a 13-year-old Christian girl, Maria Shahbaz, from Lahore, the capital of Punjab province, to a 30-year-old Muslim man. (OSV News photo/courtesy Catholics in Pakistan)

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Christians protest after Pakistani court says forced marriage of Christian girl, 13, is legal

OSV News|Apr 21, 2026|3 Min Read

(VIVEK M NARAYANAN/Shutterstock via CNA)

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Church leaders praise Pakistan amendment raising legal age for marriage of Christians

Kate Quiñones|Jul 22, 2024|2 Min Read

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Assaults on Christians over blasphemy charge latest twist in Pakistan’s religious tensions

Elise Ann Allen|Aug 17, 2023|5 Min Read

Asia Bibi

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Asia Bibi advocates for Pakistanis accused of blasphemy

Catholic News Service|Dec 2, 2022|3 Min Read

Men who were displaced by flooding bathe amid floodwaters in Sehwan, Pakistan, Sept.13, 2022. As of Sept. 15, Pakistan's disaster management office reported more than 1,500 people dead since half the country became submerged starting in June. (CNS photo/Akhtar Soomro, Reuters)

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Pakistani bishops say they need more help after deadly flooding

Simone Orendain|Sep 16, 2022|4 Min Read

People wade in floodwaters outside their home, following heavy rains during the monsoon season in Sohbatpur district of Pakistan, Aug. 28, 2022. (CNS photo/Amer Hussain, Reuters)

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Bishop calls for help for Pakistanis left homeless, hungry by floods

Catholic News Service|Aug 30, 2022|2 Min Read

The Supreme Court of Pakistan in Islamabad. (Usman.pg/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 via CNA)

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Pakistan’s top court grants bail to Christian facing blasphemy charge

Catholic News Agency|Jan 10, 2022|2 Min Read

Cardinal Joseph Coutts of Karachi, Pakistan, is pictured at the Collegio San Colombano in Rome June 26, 2018. (Robert Duncan/CNS)

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Pakistan cardinal blames ‘duplicity’ of West for rise of Islamic extremism

Inés San Martín|Oct 20, 2021|9 Min Read

Cardinal Joseph Coutts of Karachi, Pakistan, speaks at a symposium on religious freedom presented by the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See in Rome in 2018. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

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Pakistan cardinal says homeland has ‘the good, the bad, and the ugly’

Inés San Martín|Oct 19, 2021|8 Min Read

Asia Bibi -- the Pakistani Catholic woman who spent nearly a decade on death row after she was falsely accused of blasphemy -- is pictured in Paris Feb. 26, 2020. (CNS photo/Thomas Oswald, courtesy Aid to the Church in Need)

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Asia Bibi appeals for the repeal of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws

Inés San Martín|Apr 21, 2021|4 Min Read

Dozens of homes were destroyed in Kali Mori, in the city of Hyderabad, in Pakistan, in mid-March, 2021. Thousands of Christians suddenly found themselves without a home after the Supreme Court ruled municipal officials had to free encroached lands both in Hyderabad and in Karachi. (Courtesy Eric Siraj via Crux)

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Hundreds of Christian families face eviction from their homes in Pakistan

Inés San Martín|Mar 18, 2021|4 Min Read

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