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Christian Charged with ‘Blasphemy’ after Argument over Rent
By Murad Khan LAHORE, Pakistan (Compass Direct News) – A young man has been charged with desecrating the Quran under Pakistan’s controversial “blasphemy” laws after the Christian had an argument over rent with his Muslim landlord, his attorneys said. Police in Shahdara Town, near Lahore, arrested Khuram Masih, 23, on Dec. 5 and charged him under Section 295-B after his landlord, Zulfiqar Ali, accused him of burning pages of the Quran in order to prepare tea, the … Read entire article »
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Muslims in Pakistan Beat, Shoot at Christians in Land Grab
By Murad Khan LAHORE, Pakistan (Compass Direct News) – In an attempted land-grab in southern Punjab Province, police and cohorts of a retired military official beat two Christian women and shot at Christians who came to help them on Friday (Nov. 25), area Christians told Compass. About eight police officials led by Sub-Inspector Muhammad Arif of Kot Sarwar Shaheed police station, along with armed associates of a retired senior military officer, Air Marshal Maqbool Shah, arrived at … Read entire article »
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Christian Evangelist Shot Dead in Pakistan
By Murad Khan KARACHI, Pakistan (Compass Direct News) – An evangelist was shot dead here on Wednesday (Nov. 16) by an unidentified gunman in what his family believes was a radical Muslim group’s targeting of a Christian. Zahid Jameel, 25, told Compass that his father, Jameel Saawan, and a helper were opening the doors of their cosmetics shop in the Gulshan-e-Iqbal area of Pakistan’s commercial hub of Karachi on Wednesday morning when a young man appeared and … Read entire article »
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Pakistani Muslims Fire on Christians in Land-Grab, Killing One
By Jeremy Reynalds Senior Correspondent for ASSIST News Service LAHORE, PAKISTAN (ANS) — Muslims in Pakistan’s Mian Channu area in southern Punjab Province shot dead an unarmed Christian and injured 21 others, six of them critically, during an attempted land-grab on Oct. 5. According to a story by Compass Direct News, residents of the area told the news service by phone that 40 to 45 heavily-armed Muslims on between 10 and 12 motorcycles, two tractor-trolleys and in a car reached Chak 134-16/L village in Khanewal district. They forcibly entered the home of Adeel Kashif, a Christian carpenter who was living on a government-owned piece of land. … Read entire article »
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Rioting Muslims Damage Church, Homes and Schools in Pakistan
By Dan Wooding Founder of ASSIST Ministries LAHORE, PAKISTAN (ANS) — Compass Direct News (CDN) is reporting that hundreds of Muslims in Gujranwala, Pakistan, on Saturday (April 30) attacked Christians’ homes, a school and a Presbyterian church building after learning that police had released two Christians accused of “blasphemy” – amid reports of another alleged desecration of the Quran. “Mushtaq Gill and his son Farrukh Mushtaq were released on Friday afternoon (April 29) after a handwriting expert hired by police determined that the latter had not written a threatening note accompanying burned pages of the Quran, police sources said,” stated the CDN story. “A mob started rioting and hurling rocks at the Christians’ homes and at an elementary school owned by a Christian, Eric Isaac, who was among eight Christians that police took into … Read entire article »
Filed under: Assist News Service, Muslim, Pakistan, Persecution
