Tag: Pak Christians

Most of the Christians are poor labourers. The church belongs to Full Gospel Assemblies, an evangelical group working in Pakistan, and was built on land belonging to 70-year-old Christian named Rafiq Masih.

A mass return of asylum seekers to the centres could lead to overcrowding and see health levels deteriorate; they are already showing significant levels of tuberculosis, hepatitis and scabies.

JAWAD Qamar, regional police chief of Kot Radha Kishan said, “We have arrested 44 people, it was a local issue incited by the mullah of a local mosque. No particular sectarian group or religious outfit was behind the attack."

AROUND 1,000 Christian and Hindu women in Pakistan are forcibly converted to Islam and married to Muslim men every year, says a report released by Movement for Solidarity and Peace (MSP) on April 7.

A court in eastern Pakistan has sentenced a Christian couple to death for sending a blasphemous text message insulting the Prophet Muhammad, their lawyer said on Saturday.

THE Students of St Mary’s Minor Seminary and Rector Father Inayat Bernard held a day of bible reading and fasting for the release of Asia Bibi in Multan Jail and Sawan Masih in Ichchra Central Jail.

JUDGE Lahore Ghulam Murtaza Chaudhry sentenced Sawan Masih to hang after a Muslim said he had insulted the prophet Mohammed in the eastern city of Lahore a year ago.

THE Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has banned the words ‘Jesus Christ’ from use in text messages along with cuss words and other banned phrases.

TWENTY-Eight-year old Muslim Arif Gujjar is under police custody for questioning in connection with the murder of 18-year-old Christian Amariah Masih shot to death on Nov. 27 in Pakistan.

A Christian couple is facing false charges of theft after police in Abbottabad severely beat the pregnant woman and her husband for three days when they refused to confess, they told Compass.