Pakistan

A Pentecostal church in Karachi was vandalized by Islamists still irate from a threat to burn Korans by a Florida pastor.

Five young men severely assaulted a pastor in Punjab, Pakistan for preaching, a Christian human rights group said.

A church in northwestern Pakistan was bombed that injured two Christians, one of them seriously on September 12.

Suspected Islamic militants have killed three American Christian aid workers who were helping victims of Pakistan’s worst floods in recent memory, a well-informed source in the Pakistani military told Worthy News Saturday, August 28.

The parents of a Christian Pakistani girl were still searching for their daughter Thursday, August 26, nearly half a year after she was reportedly kidnapped, forced to marry a Muslim men, and pressured into embracing Islam.

Accusations of “blasphemy” in two Pakistani provinces have sent several people into hiding, according to Compass Direct.

Pakistani Christians observed August 11, 2010, as ‘Black Day,’ meant as a protest of the persecution and suffering they go through, Worthy News has learned.

A local court exonerated a Christian woman of blasphemy charges after authorities previously pressured her into making a false confession.

An impoverished Christian family in Pakistan faced uncertainty Thursday, August 12, after a Muslim cleric pledged to withdraw a case of blasphemy against them, officials familiar with the procedures said.

Two Christian evangelists who were shot and killed by suspected Islamic militants were quickly buried around sunrise Tuesday, July 20, in the Pakistani city of Faisalabad after a night of sectarian clashes, officials told Worthy News and its news partner BosNewsLife.

Gun battles broke out in a predominantly Christian neighborhood of the Pakistani city of Faisalabad Monday, July 19, shortly after two Christian evangelists were shot and killed by suspected Islamic militants, witnesses told Worthy News and its news partner BosNewsLife.

Suspected Muslim militants shot and killed two Christian men who were due to appear in court on charges of blasphemy against Islam in Pakistan’s Punjab province, trial observers confirmed Monday, July 19.

A Muslim lawyer has apologized for thousands of anti-Christian leaflets distributed in Pakistan at a reconciliation meeting with Christian leaders who said they forgave him because they are followers of “the Prince of Peace,” according to delegates attending the gathering.

A high-ranking Pakistani politician, who negotiated the release of kidnapped Christians and fought against controversial blasphemy laws, says he and his family are in life danger after receiving threatening phone calls from suspected Islamic militants.

A Christian woman remained in hospital Monday, June 28, after she was beaten and briefly abducted on the orders of a prominent Pakistani Muslim legislator “because Christians didn’t vote” for him, family and police said.

Impoverished frail parents were still awaiting justice Monday, June 14, for the death of their son who they and Christian investigators said died of “mental and physical torture” while in police custody in the city of Lahore.

Three Christian workers were detained and “tortured” by police and dismissed from their jobs in Pakistan’s Punjab province for wearing a crucifix and church visits on Sundays, according to statements from the men, their priest and family members Wednesday, May 12. Local police said the Christians were taken into custody because of suspected “alcohol” related offenses.

An impoverished Pakistani Christian has been forced to sell his kidney to pay off a loan he took from his Muslim boss to finance his daughter’s education, the father and Christians said Tuesday, May 11.