Pakistan

A Christian man has been sentenced to death in Punjab Province, Pakistan for sharing allegedly hateful content against Muslims on TikTok, The Hindu reports.

Christians said Friday their “hearts are heavy” after police in northwestern Pakistan confirmed that an angry mob had killed a man questioned there for allegedly “desecrating” the Koran.

Christians confirmed Thursday that five Christian sanitation workers have died in accidents in Pakistan this week, highlighting concerns about the plight of non-Muslim workers.

A young Catholic man in Lahore, Pakistan was tortured and murdered by his Islamic former-employer earlier this month after he resigned to seek a better job, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.

A devoutly Christian woman in Pakistan has been refused bail and faces a 10-year jail sentence for allegedly hurting the religious sentiments of Muslims, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.

A 74-year-old Christian man in Punjab Province, Pakistan, has succumbed to the injuries he sustained during a May 25 attack by a mob of Muslims who falsely believed he had desecrated the Quran, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports. Nazir Gill, a resident of the predominantly Christian community in Sargodha, suffered severe head trauma and died at a military hospital near Islamabad on Monday.

Police in eastern Pakistan say they have arrested over 100 Muslim men for attacking and nearly killing a Christian father and son who were accused of desecrating pages of “Islam’s holy book.”

A 74-year-old Presbyterian Christian man in Pakistan is on a ventilator in critical condition after two Islamist neighbors incited a mob to attack him for allegedly burning pages of the Quran, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. 

There was concern Friday about the declining health of Pakistani Pastor Zafar Bhatti, who has been held in prison for 12 years and faces execution by hanging for alleged blasphemy against Islam.

A local government-backed advertisement campaign for sanitation workers targeting the Christian minority in Pakistan has highlighted concerns that only Christians should work in these low-paying, dangerous jobs in the mainly Muslim nation.

A lawyer in Pakistan is demanding that reluctant police authorities arrest an Islamist employer who caused a young Christian female employee to lose an ear and most of her scalp when he pushed her into an electric chaff cutter last month, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.

Police in Punjab Province, Pakistan, have refused to assist a Catholic farming family after they were attacked by Muslims demanding they vacate their land, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. 

The family of a 20-year-old Christian who was murdered by an Islamic extremist in Pakistan are being threatened that they too will be killed unless they drop their charges against the murderer, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.

A Presbyterian church building in Rawalpindi District, Pakistan was burned to the ground in a suspected arson attack on Saturday, one day after a local Muslim threatened that he would not allow the congregation to celebrate Easter in their building, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.

The Christian parents of a 10-year-old girl in Pakistan are concerned she may fall into the hands of sex traffickers after being abducted by a Muslim man known for kidnapping children to forcibly convert them to Islam, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. Muslim-majority Pakistan ranks seventh on the US Open Doors World Watch List 2024 of the top 50 countries where Christians are persecuted.

An 18-year-old Christian man in Pakistan is in prison awaiting trial after a former classmate accused him of insulting Islam by saying he did not believe in Allah and questioning the right of Muslim men to have four wives, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. With notoriously harsh blasphemy laws, Islamic-majority Pakistan ranks seven on the US Open Doors World Watch List 2024 of the top 50 countries where Christians are persecuted.

Alarmed at the number of people charged and incarcerated for blasphemy in Pakistan, rights advocates are demanding legislative charges to protect against blatant Islamic extremist abuse of blasphemy laws to persecute not only those of minority faiths but Muslims as well, Christian Daily reports.

A court in Faisalabad, Pakistan has acquitted the two Christian men who were falsely accused of committing blasphemy offenses that led to major riot in Jaranwala on Aug.16 last year, Morning Star News reports.

An attorney in Pakistan has expressed hope for a young Christian man on death row for “blasphemy” against Islam after a court acquitted him in a case related to the same alleged incident.