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Muslims Kidnap and Rape 14-year-old Christian Girl in Pakistan

By Dan Wooding Founder of ASSIST Ministries RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN (ANS) — Compass Direct News (CDN) is reporting that five Muslims kidnapped and raped a Christian girl in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, after threatening to kill her unless her father allowed one of them to marry her. … Read entire article »

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Muslims Order Christians to Leave Village in Pakistan

KHANEWAL, PAKISTAN (ANS) -Compass Direct News (CDN) is reporting that the head of a Muslim village last week ordered 250 Christian families to leave their homes in Khanewal district, Punjab Province, local residents said. The CDN story states that Abdul Sattar Khan, head of village No. 123/10R, Katcha Khoh, and other area Muslim residents ordered the expulsions after Christian residents objected “too strenuously” to “sexual assaults” by Muslims on Christian girls and women, said a locally elected Christian official, Emmanuel Masih. It added that most of the village’s Christian men work in the fields of Muslim land owners, while most of the Christian women and girls work as servants in the homes of Muslim families, said Rasheed Masih. … Read entire article »

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Muslims Murder Pakistani Christian with Axe Blows For Refusing to Convert to Islam

By Dan Wooding, Founder of ASSIST Ministries MIAN CHANNU, PAKISTAN (ANS) – Compass Direct News (CDN) is reporting that six Muslims in Khanewal district in the southern Punjab Province of Pakistan, killed a Christian with multiple axe blows for refusing to convert to Islam this month, according to family and police sources. The CDN story says, “The six men had threatened to kill 36-year-old Rasheed Masih unless he converted to Islam when they grew resentful of his potato business succeeding beyond their own, according to Masih’s younger brother Munir Asi and a local clergyman. … Read entire article »

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Pakistani Christian couple gets 25 years in jail for ’defiling the Quran’

By Dan Wooding, Founder of ASSIST Ministries KASUR, PAKISTAN (ANS) – A Pakistani court on Tuesday, March 2, 2010 sentenced a Christian couple to 25 years in prison for defiling the Quran, the Muslim holy book, ANS has learned. According to the Centre for Legal Aid, Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS) UK Munir Masih and Ruqqiya Bibi were accused of touching Quran with unwashed hands. … Read entire article »

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Pakistani Christian Beaten for Refusing to Convert to Islam

By Dan Wooding, ASSIST Ministries KALLUR KOT, PAKISTAN (ANS) — Compass Direct News (CDN) is reporting that the four older Muslim brothers of a 26-year-old Christian beat him unconscious in Kallur Kot town, Pakistan, earlier this month because he refused their enticements to convert to Islam. The CDN story says that Riaz Masih, whose Christian parents died when he was a boy, said his continual refusal to convert infuriated his siblings and the Muslim cleric who raised them, Moulvi Peer Akram-Ullah. … Read entire article »

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