kidnapping

More than 100 people gathered Sunday in a small Michigan town to pray for the safe release of a local family among 17 missionaries kidnapped by a gang in Haiti more than a week ago.

As work to recover 17 missionaries enters its sixth day, Christian Aid Ministries asked supporters on Friday to pray and share stories with the victims' families of how their faith helped them through difficult times.

Neha is among a growing number of underage girls from minority families in Pakistan who are kidnapped and forcibly converted to Islam via marriage to older Muslim men.

Nigerian pastors are increasingly the targets of violence, says one Christian leader in Kaduna State. Not two weeks after a Nigerian pastor and his family were attacked while traveling, Pastor Elisha Numan has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom.