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According to the National Commission of Justice and Peace and the Pakistan Hindu Council (PHC) around 1000 Christian and Hindu minority women are converted to Islam and then forcibly married off to their abductors or rapists. This practice is being reported increasingly in the districts of Tharparkar, Umerkot and Mirpur Khas in Sindh. [268]
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In 2012, Kate Shellnut of the Houston Chronicle described Houston as a "heavily Christian city." [6] According to the Pew Research Center and D Magazine, Houston is the third-most religious and Christian area by percentage of population in the United States, and second in Texas behind the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.
The Citizenship Amendment Act provides a fast track to naturalization for Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians who fled to Hindu-majority India from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and ...
A Texas man is suing a local Hindu temple, alleging it branded his son with a hot iron during a cultural ceremony. Vijay Cheruvu, of Fort Bend County, said he did not give his consent for his son ...
Persecution of Hindus refers to the religious persecution inflicted upon Hindus that may undergo as a consequence of professing their faith, both historically and in the current era. Hindus have been brutally persecuted during the historical Islamic rule of the Indian subcontinent [82] [better source needed] and during Portuguese rule of Goa.
The Hindu population of the United States is the eighth-largest in the world. Ten percent of Asian Americans, who together account for 5.8% of the U.S. population, are followers of the Hindu faith. [10] Most Hindus in America are immigrants (87%) or the children of immigrants (9%). The remaining are converts. [11]
Given that the Hindu population in East Pakistan was around 11 million in 1971, this suggests that up to 8 million, or more than 70% of the Hindu population had fled the country. The Pulitzer Prize –winning journalist Sydney Schanberg covered the start of the war and wrote extensively on the suffering of the East Bengalis, including the ...