{"id":11319,"date":"2012-09-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/09\/12\/non-muslims-live-in-terror-in-pakistan-world-council-of-churches-say\/"},"modified":"2012-09-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T12:00:00","slug":"non-muslims-live-in-terror-in-pakistan-world-council-of-churches-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/09\/12\/non-muslims-live-in-terror-in-pakistan-world-council-of-churches-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Muslims Live &#8220;In Terror&#8221; In Pakistan, World Council of Churches Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2012\/09\/05\/non-muslims-live-in-terror-in-pakistan-world-churches-say\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, September 6, 2012 (Toronto Sun): Minority religious communities in Pakistan are living in &#8220;fear and terror&#8221; of Islamic fundamentalists amid abductions and forced conversions that the government is helpless to stop, the World Council of Churches (WCC) said on Wednesday. A statement from the WCC&#8217;s ruling Central Committee declared that Pakistan&#8217;s small Hindu and Christian communities were increasingly subject to &#8220;persecution and discrimination&#8221;, with mounting Islamization of a formerly more secular nation. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today a significant number of young women of religious minorities &#8230; face violence, including sexual assault, rape, threats and persecution,&#8221; said the WCC &#8211; an influential global organisation of all Christian faiths except Roman Catholics. These women were &#8220;abducted, confined, converted to Islam and forced to marry Muslim men,&#8221; while the authorities &#8220;seem to be powerless to stop the Islamist fundamentalist forces that are responsible&#8230;and are freely operating,&#8221; the WCC said. The statement said minority faith leaders had constantly tackled the Pakistani authorities over the situation but they had been ignored. &#8220;This lack of protection of religious minorities by the government of Pakistan is unacceptable.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, September 6, 2012 (Toronto Sun): Minority religious communities in Pakistan are living in &#8220;fear and terror&#8221; of,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}