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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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Colorado City, Town of et al [30] ruled that the twin towns of Colorado City and Hildale had discriminated against Ronald and Jinjer Cooke because they were not members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS church). [31] The Cookes were awarded $5.2 million for "religious discrimination". [31]
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 ...
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 ...
Adding that Christians are persecuted in more than 70 countries in the world, Carraway said, "The world has changed and it's harder to be a Christian now in the United States than it was in 1995 ...
[97] [98] In February 2015, Hindu temples in Kent and the Seattle Metropolitan area were vandalized, and in April 2015, a Hindu temple in north Texas was vandalized with xenophobic images spray-painted on its walls. [99] [100] In 2011, the Sri Venkateshwara Temple in Pittsburgh was also vandalized and $15,000 worth of jewelry was stolen. [101]
Human Rights Watch reported that the first wave of violence occurred on December 24, 2007 during an ice argument between Christians and Hindus over Christmas celebrations in the Kandhamal district. A Christian group attacked a vehicle belonging to VHP leader Lakshmanananda Saraswati and in retaliation 19 churches were completely burned down and ...