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"We are not happy living here," says one of the girls, who gives her name as Maida Yakubu. "I'm begging our parents to meet the government to release their people so that we can be released."

Rev. Dr. Roger Gaikwad, General Secretary of National Council of Churches in India (NCCI) said: “Rape, sexual assault, abuse and attack on women, children from minority communities is increasing in alarming rate in India."

POSING as a 15-year-old curious about joining the Islamic State, an investigative reporter was asked by a jihadi recruiter to come quickly to Syria and to “bring lingerie.”

SHE left her final will in a voice message to her mother, Shole Pakravan, in April, according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which released the English translation.

AROUND 1,000 Christian and Hindu women in Pakistan are forcibly converted to Islam and married to Muslim men every year, says a report released by Movement for Solidarity and Peace (MSP) on April 7.

A legal battle is continuing to rage in the United Kingdom after Essex social services obtained a court order to forcibly remove the unborn child of an Italian woman who was on medication for mental health issues.

THE Vatican didn't say how long bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst would spend away from the diocese of Limburg and gave no information on where he would go or what he would do.

THE closing of several Protestant denominational newspapers, magazines and other news services has played a part in eroding the standards of professional religious journalism, according to members of the Associated Church Press.

AFTER torching a Franciscan school, Islamists paraded three nuns on the streets like "prisoners of war" before a Muslim woman offered them refuge. Two other women working at the school were sexually harassed and abused as they fought their way through a mob.

WE'RE watching the unfolding situation in Cairo as night sets on the Egypt capital. The deadline issued by the Egyptian armed forces has passed, and President Morsi has made calls for reconciliation but has not stepped down, which was the primary demand of the protestors.