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Pakistani Muslim Men Gun Down Two Christian Worshippers Outside Church
By Jawad Mazhar Special Correspondent for ANS, reporting from Pakistan HYDERABAD, PAKISTAN (ANS) — Another brutal murder of Christians has taken place in Pakistan leaving two Christian worshippers dead and two others critically wounded. The killings took place on the evening of Monday, March 21, 2011, outside a Salvation Army Church in Hurr Camp, a colony of working-class Christians in Hyderabad, that was celebrating its 30th anniversary. … Read entire article »
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Christian Women Attacked by Group in Pakistan for Blasphemy
By Jeremy Reynalds Senior Correspondent for ASSIST News Service PAKISTAN (ANS) — Two Christian women were beaten up and publicly humiliated by an angry group on charges of blasphemy in Pakistan. According to a story by CathNewsIndia (a service of UCA News, part of the Catholic Church in Asia), the incident took place on Jan. 12 in Lahore after a Muslim woman accused her Christian sister-in-law of abusing the Prophet Mohammed. CathNews said the two women had a minor dispute, after which the Muslim woman went out on the street and leveled charges against the Christian. Later, a group of men led by Muhammad Sameer, a member of a religious organization, forced their way into the Christian woman’s house and slapped her and her mother, her brother said. He said their neighbors also started beating … Read entire article »
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Muslim Extremists Kill Man Accused of Blasphemy and 4 Others Including 5 Year Old
Compass Direct News reports that: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, November 19 (CDN) — Police suspect two Muslim extremists shot a Christian to death yesterday in Punjab Province shortly after the victim was granted bail in a “blasphemy” case – and less than a week after Islamist militants killed four members of a Christian family for their faith in the same province. In Godhpur village in Narowal district, 111 kilometers (69 miles) northeast of Lahore, 22-year-old Latif Masih died after two men with pistols shot him to death near his home. Inspector Rafique Ahmed said that Masih’s murder was likely linked to the case against him for allegedly desecrating the Quran. “No Muslim tolerates a man who commits blasphemous acts,” he said. Read the full story at Compass Direct News. … Read entire article »
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Muslim Extremists Murder Christian Family in Pakistan
By Jeremy Reynalds Senior Correspondent for ASSIST News Service ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (ANS) — Islamic extremists killed a Christian lawyer, his wife and their five children in northwestern Pakistan this week for mounting a legal challenge against a Muslim who was charging a Christian exorbitant interest, local sources said. According to a story by Compass Direct News, police found the bodies of attorney and evangelist Edwin Paul and his family on Sept. 28 at their home in Haripur, a small town hear Abbotabad in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province (previously known as the North-West Frontier Province, or NWFP), according to Haripur Station House Officer (SHO) Maqbool Khan. … Read entire article »
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Muslim Mob Attacks Christians in Gujrat, Pakistan
Compass Direct News reports that: SARGODHA, Pakistan – A mob of Muslim extremists on Thursday (Sept. 23) shot at and beat dozens of Christians, including one cleared of “blasphemy” charges, in Punjab Province’s Gujrat district, Christian leaders said. The attack on Tariq Gill, exonerated of charges of blaspheming the Quran on Sept. 3, 2009, and on his father Murad Gill, his mother and the other Christian residents was the latest of more than 10 such assaults on the Christian colony of Mohalla Kalupura, Gujrat city, since Sept. 8, the Rev. Suleman Nasri Khan and Bishop Shamas Pervaiz told Compass. About 40 Islamists – some shooting Kalashnikovs and pistols at homes and individuals on the street, others brandishing axes and clubs – beat some of the Christians so badly that they left them for … Read entire article »
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