Tag: Christians in Pakistan
No justice in sight for Pak Christians in Jaranwala violence
Bishop Rehmat said: “More than 300 people were arrested [following the atrocity] but it is unlikely that they will face justice. Slowly, they have started releasing them. Nobody has been charged.”
Pak PM Kakar hands over compensation to 100 Christian families
The mob ransacked and torched 21 churches and several Christian houses last week over blasphemy allegations in Jaranwala town of Faisalabad district, 130 km away from Lahore.
Muslim mobs attack Christians in Pakistan
The rioters smashed windows and doors and threw out refrigerators, sofas, chairs, and other household items to burn in front of churches.
Call to protect Christians keep UN Pakistan Mission busy
The Mission has received hundreds of such letters over the past year, sources said.
Pakistani Christian Asia Bibi set free by Supreme Court
Asia Bibi, a mother of five from Punjab province, was convicted of blasphemy in 2010 and sentenced to hang after she was accused of defiling the name of the Prophet Muhammed during an argument the year before with Muslim colleagues.
Pakistani Christians branded ‘demons’, dragged through streets
Wilson Chowdhry of the BPCA told Premier the nature of the attack "expresses the animosity that is growing within Pakistan towards the Christian minority.
300 armed Muslims attack Christian boys’ school in Pakistan
CLOSE to 300 Muslim students armed with iron bars and sticks attacked a Christian boys' school in northern Pakistan, reportedly in retaliation to French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo's controversial drawings of the Muslim prophet Muhammad.
Christian homes torched by Muslim mob over blasphemy in Pakistan
OVER 100 Christian homes were torched on Saturday by an enraged Muslim mob, following reports that a Christian man had blasphemed Islam in Lahore, eastern Pakistan.
Mob beats to death Muslim man accused of blasphemy in Pak
A mob in Pakistan has stormed a police station and beaten to death a Muslim man accused of desecrating the Koran.
The victim's body was...
Christian girl, 12, kidnapped, raped till converted back to Islam
A 12-year-old Christian girl was kidnapped and repeatedly raped for eight months in Pakistan by a man who then falsified marriage documents with her, it was claimed today.
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