Pakistan: 20 Christians remain imprisoned
An International Christian Concern (ICC) analysis of data from the United States Commission on Religious Freedom (USCIRF) found that 20 Christians have remained behind...
Muslim abducts Christian girl, 12, forces marriage/conversion
A Muslim in Pakistan abducted and forcibly converted and married a 12-year-old Christian
girl as police delayed efforts to recover her, family members said.
Parveen Shaukat,...
Christian on death row for 22 years because of letter he...
In a significant move, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has directed the country’s top Islamic
body to advise on whether a letter that left a...
Muslim employer tortures Christian worker to death
A Muslim factory owner in Pakistan on Thursday (June 6) tortured to death an 18-year-old
Christian worker for leaving the job against his wishes, family...
The women who work in the brick kilns in Pakistan
Amid the steady hum of chatter exists a silent symphony of suffering where women toil day
and night to meet not only their brick quota,...
Five Christian sanitation workers die from unsafe conditions
Five Christian sanitation workers in Pakistan have died since Tuesday (June 11) from
inhaling toxic gases, highlighting how they are forced to work without proper...
Tourist lynched and burned alive for alleged blasphemy
By Massimo Introvigne --
After the case of Christian Nazir Gil Masih, lynched in Sargodha on May 25 after he was falsely accused of having burned...
UN slams Pakistan for human rights abuses
Authorities in Pakistan have failed to curb a range of human rights violations, including a sharp increase in blasphemy-related violence, the UN Human Rights...
Mentally ill woman jailed on blasphemy charges
A 60-year-old Catholic woman who has been treated for mental illness was jailed on
blasphemy charges this week in Lahore, Pakistan, her son said.
Jameela Khatoon...
Christian man falsely accused, shot by neighbors
By Sandra Marroquín –
A Christian Pakistani man accused of burning one of Islam’s holy books was shot by his neighbors. He died later in...
