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Pakistan: Christian leader threatened with death for Facebook post criticizing Islam

January 11, 2021

A Christian lay leader in Pakistan was taken into police custody last month as hundreds of Muslims descended on his Lahore neighborhood threatening to kill him for sharing a post against Islam on his Facebook page, Morning Star News reports. The outraged mob also threatened to burn down homes in Raja Warris’ neighborhood in the Charar area of Lahore, causing Pakistani Christians in the community to flee for their lives.

Christian ‘Blasphemy’ Girl Hiding In Pakistan After Release

November 26, 2020

A Christian girl who is suffering from the coronavirus is in hiding after a court annulled her marriage with her Muslim kidnapper, trial observers told Worthy News.

Pakistan Court Gives Christian Girl, 13, To Muslim Abductor

October 27, 2020

A top regional court in Pakistan has given custody of a 13-year-old Christian girl to her Muslim abductor, sources involved in the case told Worthy News late Tuesday.

Pakistan Christian Woman, Children Flee After Husband’s Death Sentence For Blasphemy

October 23, 2020

A Pakistani Christian woman and her four children have fled after her husband was sentenced to death for blasphemy against Islam, well-informed Christians told Worthy News.

Authorities do nothing as Muslim men rape Christian and other minority faith girls in Pakistan

October 14, 2020

Advocacy groups have reported that around 1,000 girls of Christian and other minority faith groups in Pakistan are being raped by Muslim extremists in purported forced conversions to Islam every year, WND reports.

Pakistan Court Acquits Christian Facing Execution For Blasphemy

October 7, 2020

A high court in Pakistan has acquitted a Christian father who spent years on death row for blasphemy against Islam, his defense team confirmed to Worthy News.

Appeal Hearing Of Pakistani Couple Sentenced To Death For Blasphemy

September 24, 2020September 23, 2020

A Pakistani Christian couple was to face a court Thursday after spending six years in prison waiting for an appeal against their death sentence for “blasphemy”, trial observers said.

Pakistan Sentences Christian To Death For Blasphemy

September 10, 2020

Christians have appealed for prayers after a Pakistani court sentenced a Christian man to death by hanging for sending “blasphemous” text messages.

Pakistan Christian Girls Forced To Marry and Convert

September 6, 2020

There is growing anxiety about the plight of several teenage Christians girls who were forced to marry and convert to Islam, according to rights activists familiar with their plight.

Christian Family Shot and Injured in Pakistan

June 18, 2020

Two members of a Christian family have been shot and wounded after buying a house in a Muslim neighborhood, Christian activists said Friday. The shooting happened after Nadeem Joseph reportedly purchased a home in the TV Colony in Pakistan’s volatile northwestern city of Peshawar in late May.

Brother-in-Law of Christian Asia Bibi Killed in Pakistan

May 27, 2020

The brother-in-law of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who faced the death penalty for “blasphemy” against Islam, has been killed, local Christians confirmed Wednesday.

Pakistan Church Has Rooftop Services Amid Lockdown and Saves Slaves

April 25, 2020

An evangelical church and mission group has launched rooftop services in Pakistan after authorities banned regular church meetings amid a national lockdown to halt the coronavirus pandemic. Besides providing alternative worship, the church also saved 100 Christian families from slavery in some of Pakistan’s notorious brickyards, a pastor said in an extensive interview.

‘Pakistan Christians Starving For Rejecting Islam’

April 20, 2020April 18, 2020

Christians and other minorities in Pakistan face starvation as they are denied food aid for refusing to convert to Islam, aid workers say. The Emergency Committee to Save the Persecuted and Enslaved (ECSPE) confirmed that authorities and government-backed groups refuse to provide relief to non-Muslims despite a nationwide lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Christians in Pakistan denied food during coronavirus lockdown

April 17, 2020April 17, 2020

Christians in Pakistan have been denied food by authorities since the country’s COVID-19 lockdown began on March 21, Arutz Sheva 7 reports. In four incidents recorded this month by International Christian Concern (ICC) and Jihad Watch, Christians were told food aid was for Muslims only.

Young Christian man in Pakistan killed by Muslim for ‘polluting’ water

March 2, 2020

A young Christian farm worker was killed in Pakistan by a Muslim landowner, who tortured the young man with farm equipment for rinsing himself after his day’s work in a well and ‘polluting’ it.

‘Even then we trust God’: Pakistani Christians assaulted by Muslims for trying to build church uniting scattered flock

February 27, 2020

A Christian man in Pakistan who felt led to gather all the local house churches together into one community has sustained critical injuries after Muslim neighbors surrounded his land and viciously assaulted his family.

New Pakistani social media law could make already infamous ‘blasphemy laws’ more powerful

February 25, 2020

Pakistan introduced a new law on Jan. 28 requiring social media outlets to remove ‘unwanted or slanderous’ content within 24 hours, and Christians fear it could extend the reach of blasphemy laws that already carry a heavy penalty.

Kidnapped Christian girl in Pakistan returned to family, which is still receiving threats from captors

February 18, 2020

A 14-year-old Christian girl kidnapped from her school in Pakistan in January as been restored to her family, but not before receiving severe beatings and being raped by her captors, who are still threatening her family.

Underage Christian girls can be married off to Muslim men, Pakistani court rules

February 10, 2020

A High Court in Pakistan has judged that Muslim men may marry underage Christian girls as long as they have had their first menstrual cycle, contravening an earlier law that forbade marriage for any girl under the age of 18 in the face of widespread abductions.

Christians in Pakistan accused of murdering Muslims released after paying ‘blood money’ to families

February 7, 2020

A group of Christians in Pakistan accused of killing two Muslims in 2015 in riots that followed Taliban suicide bombings on churches were acquitted last week after paying ‘blood money’ to the victim families.