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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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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 »
Filed under: Assist News Service, Compass Direct, Muslim, Pakistan, Persecution
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 »
Filed under: Assist News Service, Christian, Muslim, Pakistan, Persecution
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 »
Filed under: Assist News Service, Christian, Muslim, Pakistan, Persecution
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 »
Filed under: Assist News Service, Christian, Compass Direct, Pakistan, Persecution
