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 the rest of this entry »

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 the rest of this entry »

Pakistani Christian Sentenced to Life under ‘Blasphemy’ Law

By Dan Wooding, Founder of ASSIST Ministries

FAISALABAD, PAKISTAN (ANS) — Compass Direct News (CDN) is reporting that a young Christian shopkeeper was sentenced to a life term in prison and fined more than $1,000 last week following a dubious conviction of desecrating the Quran, according to Pakistan’s National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP).

Objections to Pakistan’s blasphemy laws gained momentum at a protest in Lahore last August. Read the rest of this entry »

Five Pakistani Muslim Men Abduct Christian Woman

By Dan Wooding, Founder of ASSIST Ministries

SARGODHA, PAKISTAN (ANS) — International Christian Concern (ICC) has said that it has learned that five Muslim men have recently abducted a 21-year-old Christian girl in Sargodha, Pakistan.

It was reported to ICC, a Washington, DC, human rights group, that Muhammad Afzal, Maqsood Ahmed, Muhammad Ashraf and two other unidentified Muslim men abducted Asifa Bibi from her home at gunpoint. The Muslim men then dragged her into an unregistered black car and drove to an undisclosed location. Read the rest of this entry »

Muslim Mob in Pakistan Wounds Christian Family

By Dan Wooding, Founder of ASSIST Ministries

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (ANS) — Compass Direct News has revealed that a Muslim mob in Pakistan has attacked and wounded a Christian family in Iqbal Town, Islamabad.

“Infuriated by an alleged anti-Islamic comment by a mentally ill man, more than a dozen Muslims attacked his Christian family here last week, beating his 20-year-old sister unconscious and breaking her leg,” said the Compass story.

“The woman’s father, Aleem Mansoor, said his daughter Elishba Aleem ‘went unconscious’ after being struck in the head with an iron rod in the December 28, 2009, attack.” Read the rest of this entry »