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| Maria Shahbaz’s parents with rights activist Safdar Chaudhry and lawyer Rana Abdul Hameed after federal court ruling on Feb. 3, 2026. (Facebook) |
The Christian mother of Maria Shabaz (13) cries next to her husband (photo), Shahbaz Masih, as they stand with their lawyers after judges in Pakistan ruled that a Muslim man who abducted Maria in 2025 could keep her as his wife.
“A court in Pakistan on Wednesday (March 25) upheld the marriage of a forcibly converted 13-year-old Christian girl to the Muslim man accused of kidnapping her, sending a wave of anguish and alarm through the Christian community.”
“Shehryar Ahmad, a 30-year-old Muslim man, forcibly converted Maria to Islam and married her. Since her abduction on July 29, 2025, her family has repeatedly sought judicial intervention to recover her, without success.”
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Heavenly Father, we cry out to you about this heartbreaking judicial decision against Maria and her family by two judges in Pakistan named Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi and Muhammad Karim Khan Agha. We ask for Your divine intervention in this situation. Will there be no justice for this innocent young Christian girl? Will she be forced to live with her kidnapper and never see her family again? We pray not! But we don’t know what else to do as the legal system in Pakistan has made its ruling. You are the God of miracles and we ask you for another one in Maria’s case. May this verdict spur on the Christian community to strongly seek judicial protections for their community in Pakistan which persecutes them. Strengthen Shahbaz, his wife and family along with the lawyers to continue to press forward to receive justice. For Your glory in Pakistan. Amen.
“...but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.” – Matthew 18:6
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