Christians in Gujranwala have expressed their anger over the illegal seizure of the burial land allotted to the Christian community before the creation of Pakistan. The local Christian community rallied, calling for immediate action against the perpetrators. It alleges that locals by the name of Cheema Brothers illegally seized the graveyard which belongs to the…
In Bahawalpur, Pakistan, the administration has ordered that Christians can only offer Sunday Prayers in Churches only not in houses. There are only four Church Buildings in the city and they were built before independence or before 1971. Churches are not permitted to be built on sites within 200 metres from any Mosque or within…
A mob of more than 50 Muslims attacked a Pakistani Christian pastor and his family in a dispute over land. They fired shots in the air and used iron rods to beat residents, Pastor Michael Robert and those who lived with him. The gang also attacked the colony and shot to harass the residents and…
Blasphemy charges have been dropped against an eight-year-old Christian boy in Quetta, Pakistan. The youngster m and his mother were both accused of burning pages of the holy Quran. The incident is said to have taken place on October 20 and soon afterwards the police filed a report against them. While the Christian boy and…
Eleven Christian TV stations have been declared illegal by the Pakistani Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA). The watchdog further accused the stations of not having permission to broadcast, leaving Pakistani Christians with no public media presence for the first time in nearly two decades. In response to PEMRA’s decision Catholic TV founder Fr. Morris Jalal called…
The Supreme Court of Pakistan today (13th October) adjourned the hearing of Aasia Bibi’s final appeal for an indefinite period after a judge in the case stepped down. She has been detained since 2009 after she was accused of uttering derogatory remarks against Islam and the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Aasia was sentenced to death in…
A Christian teenager has been arrested for ‘liking’ and sharing a photograph of a sacred Islamic building on Facebook. Nabeel Masih 16, was charged and is currently imprisoned under the blasphemy law in the Kasur District for sharing a picture of Khana-e-Kaaba, a building at the heart of Islam’s most sacred mosque, in Mecca, Saudi…
Militant gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed a Christian colony near Peshawar on Friday and killed one Christian and injuring five other people. The attack triggered a shootout in which four attackers were killed, along with one christian and three security officials and two civilian guards were injured. A local police official said one of the…
A 28-year-old Pakistani Christian woman was falsely reported to police after she left her job at a salon run my a Muslim owner. Shakila Sosheel started work at Fatima Khurram beauty salon as a manager in January. Both Muslim and Christian girls worked in the salon, but all the mistakes of the Muslim girls would…
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has called on Pakistan repeal its blasphemy law. In the periodic report released on August 26 the Commission “takes note of the state’s efforts to prevent the abuse of blasphemy laws”, but also expressed concern about “efforts for the broad and vague definition of crimes…
