A Pakistani Christian man is fearing for his life after her fiancée was abducted, forcibly converted to Islam and forced to marry a Muslim man. Sajid Maish from Changa Manga, Punjab, got engaged to Christian Nabila Bibi one year ago, and they were due to get married in November. But Bibi was abducted by Muslim…
Pakistan has been recognised as the ‘worst country in terms of religious freedom’. As a result, the US Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has asked the American government to designate Pakistan as a ‘country of particular concern’ (CPC) citing “egregious” violations. The US State Department is being urged to further expand its CPC list…
A married Pakistani Christian deaf and mute woman was gang raped by three Muslim men who forced their way into her home while the male occupants were out. According to reports, an FIR (first information report) has been registered against three men. The police has Muhammad Umar, but two others escaped after the incident in…
Pervaiz Masih has been granted bail after spending one month in jail accused of blasphemy. He was arrested after arguing with villagers over the issue of a contract regarding the supply of sand, and locals applied pressure on the police to arrest him for blasphemy. Muslim villagers warned the police that they would set the…
A 24-year-old Pakistani Christian man has been arrested for blasphemy after refusing to allow the police to blackmail him. Naveed Masih from Sargodha practices exorcism through prayers and has many Muslim followers who visit him with their spiritual problems. A number of days ago one of hi s followers gifted him an antique sword which…
Pakistani Christian Asia Bibi has been moved to isolation over fears of vigilante attacks following the decision to uphold Mumtaz Qadri’s death sentence. Bibi, who has been on death row for blasphemy since 2010, was moved into solitary confinement after prison officials at the women’s prison in the city of Multan became concerned about her…
The Church Leadership along with members of other Religious Minority communities in Punjab have demanded that they be allowed to elect their own representatives. They unanimously demanded the immediate repeal of the Punjab Local Government (Amended) Ordinance 2015, as it does not allow them to elect their own representatives at the lowest tier of democratic…
The Supreme Court had upheld the death sentence given to a Muslim police guard for killing the former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer. Malik Mumtaz Qadri killed the governor on January 4, 2011 outside his home, but after hearing legal arguments, the court dismissed his appeal. During hearing, Qadri’s counsel requested that he be given a…
Hundreds of Muslims gathered to kill a Pakistani Christian family after they were accused of blasphemy. But Aftab Masih, 42, his wife, and five children were saved from the perilous position when local Muslim clerics calmed the gathered crowd in Railway Colony, Wazirabad, and called the police. Masih was accused of blasphemy after arguing with…
Christian headteacher, Siddique Azam, who recently started working in a primary school in a village called Pernawa, district Kasur, was beaten and humiliated for being Christian. On October 5 some Muslim colleagues taunted and tortured Siddique, and attacked him in his office. They asked him to resign from his post, telling him that if he…
