Pakistan: Police torture sister of Christian who eloped

Written by Super User 16 Jun 2011

Sheikhupura police this month tortured a young Christian woman into revealing the whereabouts of the legal team helping her family after an influential Muslim family kidnapped her and her sister. Police also helped the Muslim family beat relatives of the Christian woman on court premises and attacked the offices of the organization trying to help her family. The Community Development Initiative (CDI) is an affiliate of the European Centre for Law and Justice. They helped the family negotiate the release of the two Christian sisters and also made efforts for the return of the runaway couple in order to avert religious conflict in the Punjab Province when it was feared inter-religious tensions would put the lives of some 70 Christian families of the area in jeopardy.

Pray: for God's protection over the vulnerable and for spiritually inspired hope where there is despair. (Ps,10:17,18)

More: http://www.compassdirect.org/english/country/pakistan/article_113622.html

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