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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…
Lahore, Pakistan: A Muslim factory owner in Pakistan on Thursday (June 6) tortured to death an 18-year-old Catholic worker for leaving the job against his wishes, family members said. Two months ago, Waqas Salamat started working at Haji Muhammad Saleem’s plastic bottle manufacturing facility in the Islampura neighborhood of Lahore. Salamat died when Saleem, his son…
Lahore, Pakistan: Following a mob lynching of a Christian accused of defiling the Quran in Pakistan, Islamic extremists at a rally on Sunday (June 9) expressed support for the homicide and threatened others. During a rally in Sargodha that the Islamic extremist group Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) organized, a 74-year-old Christian man named Nazeer Masih Gill…
LAHORE, Pakistan: A Christian woman in Pakistan remains in jail on baseless charges of blasphemy after a judge rejected her bail application on Monday (June 3), sources said. Stella Khawar, 28, was arrested on May 12 in Kharota Syedan, in the Kotli Loharan area of Sialkot District, Punjab Province, and was charged with hurting the religious…
LAHORE, Pakistan The May 25 Muslim mob attack that killed a Christian in Sargodha, Pakistan, was a “calculated assault, manipulated through religious fervor to gain maximum leverage,” according to a report by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP). The attack in Sargodha’s Mujahid Colony, Punjab Province, led to the death of Nazeer Masih Gill on June 3…
LAHORE, Pakistan: An elderly Christian attacked by a Muslim mob in Pakistan over a false blasphemy accusation succumbed to his injuries at 12:30 a.m. Monday (June 3), his son said. Sultan Gill, son of 74-year-old Nazeer Masih Gill, said his father passed away after the government had moved him to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in…
Police in Lahore, Pakistan, are neglecting to arrest individuals who are intimidating the victim’s relatives to provide false testimonies regarding the death of a Catholic man at the hands of his Muslim employers. Sonia Shahid, the widow of 35-year-old Shahid Masih and mother to their six children, said her husband’s employers tortured him on May…
The police detained 26 out of the 44 suspects who were Muslims. A Christian in Sargodha, Pakistan, who was severely wounded in a mob attack on Saturday (May 25) because of false allegations of blasphemy, is in stable condition, sources said. The mob of rioting Muslims beat Nazeer Masih Gill, 74, vandalized his house, and…