Christians under the Taliban

An Afghan Christian leader in the country has spoken of the fear among Christians as the Taliban make strong gains there.

Speaking anonymously, the church leader, whose first language is not English, said Christians believed their houses would be taken, their wives remarried, their children taken away and that they might well face death.

The church leader said that in areas already under Taliban control, ‘the Taliban come in the area of the mosque and [ask] how many members and households are part of that [area] and they take names of all of those people who live there. They have a [records] book that everyone has to come five times [daily] to the mosque and if you don’t come then there have be good reason you have missed a prayer. So some of them [are] already in that situation … Some people [Christians] have received a threatening that they will be killed.