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Christians in Faisalabad on high alert after murder of two pastors
The Christian community in Faisalabad remains tense after the murder on Monday of two pastors accused of committing blasphemy.
Brothers Rashid and Sajid Emmanuel were shot dead by masked gunmen as they left a courtroom in the city yesterday, despite being under police escort. A policeman was wounded in the attack before the gunmen fled the scene.
CLAAS has growing concerns about the persecution of Christian women in Pakistan.Hundreds of nurses in Pakistan took to the streets to demand justice for a Christian nursing student who was allegedly raped and thrown from the fourth floor of a Pakistan hospital by the Muslim doctor who raped her.
Approximately 200 male and female nurses from the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre suspended work for five hours in solidarity with their 23-year-old colleague, Magdalene Ashraf.
Muslim accusers offer freedom to Rubina Bibi in exchange for her conversion to IslamThe family of a Christian mother-of-three imprisoned over blasphemy charges says it is considering an out of court settlement with her accusers.
Rubina Bibi, 26, is being held in prison with her youngest child who is just two years old, while her husband and two other children have gone into hiding.
She was accused of blasphemy by her Muslim neighbour, Samina, and Samina’s relative, an imam, following a dispute over a food product she had bought from Samina.
Christian family fears for safety after radical Muslims cry blasphemy
Three members of a Christian family have gone into hiding after radical Muslims accused them of committing blasphemy.
Yousaf Masih, his wife Bashrian Bibi, and their son-in-law Zahid Masih have fled from Model Town, Lahore, after becoming embroiled in a dispute over a piece of perspex that local Muslims claimed displayed some words from the Koran on it.
Land dispute leads to false blasphemy accusation against Christian man
A Christian man in Faisalabad faces the death penalty after a local Muslim accused him of committing blasphemy.
According to International Christian Concern, Rehmat Masih was imprisoned at the District Jail Faisalabad on June 19 after being accused of blasphemy by Sajid Hameed Bajwa.
Three Christians of a family accused of blasphemy in Pakistan
2000 Muslim mob blocked road over “sacrilege” of Quranic verses.
In yet another incident of abuse of Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy laws at the hands of extremist Muslims three Christians of the same family have been accused of blasphemy in Lahore on July 5, 2010.
A blasphemy case has been registered in the Police Station Factory area Lahore against three Christians of the same family named Yousaf Masih, Bashiran bibi and Zahid Masih on July 5, 2010 under section 295-B of Pakistan Penal Code.
Grief-stricken family seek help after suspected murder Christian mother-of-three Shereen Naz has approached CLAAS for help after the suspected murder of her husband at the hands of extremist Muslims.
Nadeem Shaw had been a driver for the Avari Hotel in Lahore for the last twenty years but suffered ongoing persecution from Muslim colleagues.
Shereen said he often spoke of the hostile attitude of his Muslim colleagues and how they would always push him to convert and make him enter into discussions about Islam and Christianity that quickly became arguments.
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