Pakistan

Relatives of a Pakistani Christian mother sentenced to death for “insulting” Islam’s Prophet Muhammad have filed an appeal against her conviction, Worthy News established Monday, November 15.

A Christian worker, his Muslim wife and their baby remained in hiding Sunday, November 14, nearly a month after some 20 armed Muslim gunmen allegedly attacked their rented house in an area of Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city.

A court in Pakistan has sentenced a Christian mother of four to death for “insulting” Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, Worthy News learned. Asia Bibi, 45, is believed to be the first woman sentenced to death under Pakistan’s blasphemy law.

While in jail, a Christian teenager’s family was attacked after he claimed a Muslim friend framed him for murder.

Three Muslims beat a pastor and left him for dead in the village of Sanda Chistana, Pakistan, a Washington-based Christian human rights organization said Thursday, September 30.

Muslims have reportedly attacked dozens of Christians, including one already cleared of blasphemy charges, in Pakistan’s Punjab Province.

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.