Abduction - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 02 Nov 2020 04:03:42 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Abduction - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Pakistani court validates marriage of girl, 13 to man, 44 https://cathnews.co.nz/2020/11/02/pakistani-court-validates-marriage/ Mon, 02 Nov 2020 06:50:10 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=131925 A high court in Pakistan, ruling against a Catholic family whose 13-year-old daughter was allegedly abducted by a 44-year-old Muslim man, validated the girl's marriage to her reported abductor. "Arzoo Raja had been taken from outside her home on October 13 and two days later, as the family searched for her, police announced that they Read more

Pakistani court validates marriage of girl, 13 to man, 44... Read more]]> A high court in Pakistan, ruling against a Catholic family whose 13-year-old daughter was allegedly abducted by a 44-year-old Muslim man, validated the girl's marriage to her reported abductor.

"Arzoo Raja had been taken from outside her home on October 13 and two days later, as the family searched for her, police announced that they had received marriage papers claiming that Arzoo was 18 and that she had converted to Islam to marry her 44-year-old abductor, Ali Azhar," The Catholic Herald reports, adding, "The family were able to provide the authorities with an official birth certificate proving Arzoo was 13."

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Pakistani court validates marriage of girl, 13 to man, 44]]> 131925 Mass abduction of students from Catholic school https://cathnews.co.nz/2019/02/25/mass-abduction-students-cameroon/ Mon, 25 Feb 2019 06:51:08 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=115254 A new mass abduction of students from a school in the English-speaking area of Cameroon has been carried out by guerrillas demanding independence from the rest of the country. On 16 February, unidentified gunmen came into the campus of Saint Augustine's College, in the northwest region, and 170 students, two college security guards, one teacher Read more

Mass abduction of students from Catholic school... Read more]]> A new mass abduction of students from a school in the English-speaking area of Cameroon has been carried out by guerrillas demanding independence from the rest of the country.

On 16 February, unidentified gunmen came into the campus of Saint Augustine's College, in the northwest region, and 170 students, two college security guards, one teacher and three of his children. Read more

Mass abduction of students from Catholic school]]> 115254 Abducted nuns released by captors https://cathnews.co.nz/2018/11/22/abducted-nuns-cameroon/ Thu, 22 Nov 2018 07:05:57 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=114035

About 13 Catholic nuns who had been abducted in Cameroon were later released by their captors. The nuns were abducted last week when they were travelling through the country. None of them knew their captors. They spent the day and night with their abductors as negotiations went on for their release. They were released the Read more

Abducted nuns released by captors... Read more]]> About 13 Catholic nuns who had been abducted in Cameroon were later released by their captors.

The nuns were abducted last week when they were travelling through the country. None of them knew their captors.

They spent the day and night with their abductors as negotiations went on for their release. They were released the next day.

According to the United Nations (UN), ransom payments by some parents and the intervention of the Catholic diocese of Kumba secured the nuns' release.

The UN says besides the 13 nuns, in the past two weeks eight students and a teacher have been kidnapped in the southwest of the country. The nuns were kidnapped in the northwest.

The UN is thus urging all parties to refrain from acts of violence that have forced residents to live in fear, unable to exercise their fundamental human rights for more than a year.

Press briefing notes issued on Tuesday from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ravina Shamdasani, say the UN is deeply concerned about the worsening violence in the Southwest and Northwest regions of Cameroon.

The UN is continuing to receive reports of abductions and killings by armed groups, as well as extrajudicial killings by State armed forces.

The press briefing notes say the UN is urging "all sides to refrain from acts of violence that have, for more than a year now, left the population in these regions living in fear, unable to access their basic human rights."

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