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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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Unidentified Muslim Men Attack Pentecostal Church in Karachi Pakistan
By Jawad Mazhar, Special Correspondent for ANS, reporting from Pakistan KARACHI, PAKISTAN (ANS) — Another shocking attack against Pakistani Christians has taken place, this time by a group of unidentified Muslim men who attacked the Nasri Pentecostal Church in Shah Latif Town, Karachi. … Read entire article »
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Muslim Mob Demands Death Sentence for Alleged Christian Blasphemers
By Jeremy Reynalds, Correspondent for ASSIST News Service PAKISTAN (ANS) – More Christians are starting to face allegations of blasphemy under controversial laws in Pakistan. According to a story by Aftab Alexander Mughal writing for Minorities Concern of Pakistan (MCOP), Christian families in Lahore were forced to flee for their safety while at the same time thousands of Muslim protesters demanded the death sentence for Christians for allegedly committing blasphemy in Faisalabad city. … Read entire article »
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Muslim Mob Kills Wife, Children of Christian in Pakistan
Fearing local religious leader, area police refuse to file murder complaint By Dan Wooding Founder of ASSIST Ministries ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (ANS) — Compass Direct News (CDN) is reporting that a Muslim mob in Jhelum, Pakistan, murdered the wife and four children of a Christian last month, but local authorities are “too afraid of the local Muslim leader to file charges,” according to area Muslim and Christian sources. CDN says that Jamshed Masih, a police officer who was transferred 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Gujrat to Jhelum, Punjab Province, stated that a mob led by Muslim religious leader Maulana Mahfooz Khan killed his family on June 21, 2010, after Khan called him to the local mosque and told him to leave the predominantly Muslim colony. … Read entire article »
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Christian Professor in Pakistan Beaten for Refusing to Convert
Three eighth-grade students expelled for declining Islam By Dan Wooding, Founder of ASSIST Ministries PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN (ANS) — Muslim students attacked a Christian professor at the University of Peshawar this month after he refused their demand to convert to Islam, the instructor told Compass Direct News (CDN). The CDN story says that psychology professor Samuel John, a father of four who has been teaching at the university for 12 years, said that as he came out of his house on the university campus at 8:30 a.m. on June 14, 2010, about 20 to 25 students rushed and assaulted him. … Read entire article »
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