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Lahore, Pakistan Religious authorities and advocates for human rights in Pakistan denounced the murder of a Muslim detained on blasphemy charges on Thursday, September 12. The reported killing of Abdul Ali by a constable named Saad Khan Sarhadi at a police station in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan Province, has deeply disturbed citizens nationwide, especially Christians…
Following a severe attack on their community a year ago, Christians in Lahore, Pakistan, are persistently seeking justice concerning the Jaranwala riots. Most of the detained individuals have been released on bond or granted bail. On Aug. 16, 2023, a mob of thousands of Muslims looted and vandalized over 25 churches and 85 Christian homes…
LAHORE, Pakistan. A Christian in Pakistan was found guilty of blasphemy and given the death penalty despite the absence of supporting evidence. However, reports show he has proven his faith by doing well academically, even while incarcerated. According to his attorney, Lazar Allah Rakha, Nouman Masih, 24, recently passed his high school board exam with an…
Lahore, Pakistan: According to his family, a Muslim neighbor shot and killed a Catholic father of four children last week after he protested their harassment of Christians in the neighborhood. Marshall Masih, of the Patiala House area in Lahore, was the sole breadwinner for his elderly parents, wife, and four children—the oldest was 10, and the…
The USCIRF has once again urged the State Department to label Pakistan as a “Country of Particular Concern” because of its blasphemy laws violating religious freedom. Despite not accepting all USCIRF recommendations, Pakistan has received a CPC designation from the U.S. State Department every year since 2018. The 2024 USCIRF report states that Pakistan is…
Sources claim that a Muslim kidnapper in Lahore, Pakistan, has once again forced a 14-year-old Christian girl into marriage or conversion. According to Khalid Masih, the butcher Haider Ali abducted Alina Khalid from her home in Islamabad’s Khanna Pul neighborhood. Masih informed Christian Daily International-Morning Star News that neighbors reported seeing an unidentified girl near…
Lahore, Pakistan: Police in Pakistan on Sunday (June 23) arrested a Christian under blasphemy laws as part of his siblings’ effort to retaliate against him over a property dispute, sources said. The arrest came the same day a key government minister admitted on the floor of the National Assembly that the state has failed to protect…
Lahore, Pakistan: Due to a sloppy police investigation and pressure from an Islamist extremist party, a judge last week granted bail to at least 52 Muslims accused of killing a Christian man over a false blasphemy accusation, sources said. On June 13, a Special Judge of the Anti-Terrorism Court in Sargodha, Muhammad Abbas, granted bail to…
Lahore, Pakistan: A young Catholic mother’s eyes welled up with tears, and her hands shook as she recalled how a Muslim in Pakistan kidnapped her and tried to force her to convert to Islam and marry him. A 20-year-old mother of a 3-year-old girl and an 18-month-old boy in Okara District, Punjab Province, [First name withheld…
In Lahore, Pakistan, it has been reported that five Christian sanitation workers have tragically lost their lives because of the inhalation of toxic gases. This regrettable event emphasizes the dire situations in which they must work without safety equipment. Irfan Masih, Ratan Masih, and Babar Masih succumbed on Wednesday (June 12) to poisonous gases while…