OTTAWA -- A Parliamentary committee on human rights received a sobering message Monday after hearing testimony about religious persecution around the world and how Canada should respond to it.
In one instance, MPs heard how 300 Christian girls were raped. In another, they were told how 7,000 Egyptians were imprisoned for their faith.
But perhaps the most poignant moment was a Pakistani Christian father describing, on video tape, how his four-year-old daughter had been raped and left unconscious by the roadside after he refusing demands to convert his family to Islam.
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