LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A rights watchdog chronicled a record 344 new blasphemy cases in Pakistan in 2024, highlighting increased abuse of the country’s condemned blasphemy laws. Of the 344 new blasphemy cases, 70 percent of the accused were Muslims, 6 percent were Christians, 9 percent Hindus and 14 percent Ahmadis, according […]
Record Number of Blasphemy Cases Recorded in Pakistan
Rights watchdog cites widespread abuse of notorious law.
May 1, 2025 By - Leave a Comment
Christians in India Charged after Hindu Nationalist Attack
Police again prosecute victims of assault on church.
April 30, 2025 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A Christian charged under India’s anti-conversion law after Hindu nationalists attacked a church is seeking anticipatory bail from the Supreme Court of India. Rajesh Sharma said his plea for anticipatory bail was rejected in Chhattisgarh state’s lower and high courts. Sharma and the others were booked after a mob of […]
Killer of Staines and Sons Released as Hero in India
Life sentence set aside on grounds of ‘good behavior.’
April 24, 2025 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – One of the Hindu extremists sentenced to life in prison for burning Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two young sons to death in India 25 years ago was given a hero’s welcome after he was released on April 16. Mahendra Hembram walked out of Keonjhar jail last week, freed […]
Christian Sentenced to Death under Pakistan’s Blasphemy Law
Punishment criticized as excessive.
April 22, 2025 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A Christian accused of writing blasphemous content that sparked violent riots in Jaranwala, Pakistan in August 2023 was sentenced to death along with other harsh penalties on Good Friday (April 18). Pervaiz Masih had been arrested and charged under Pakistan’s widely condemned blasphemy statutes, including 295-A against inciting […]
Pastor’s Son Fighting India’s Failure to Create Christian Cemeteries
Officials have taken no action on Supreme Court directive.
April 16, 2025 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Ramesh Baghel has become the face of a struggle for securing dignity in death for Christians across Chhattisgarh state, India, as he prepares a new petition to the Supreme Court of India. More than two and a half months after the Supreme Court ordered the Chhattisgarh government to “demarcate exclusive […]
Arson Attempt on Church Building in Pakistan Thwarted
Police fraudulently portray attack as robbery, pastor says.
April 9, 2025 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Two unidentified men attempted to set fire to a church building in Pakistan on Saturday night (April 5), but timely intervention by the pastor thwarted the attack, sources said. Pastor Tanveer Boota of the Bethaniya Pentecostal Church in Gulshan Basti, in the Musharraf Colony area of Phoolnagar, Kasur […]
Armed Robbers Gang-Rape Christian’s Wife in Pakistan
Gunmen assault mother of three after learning couple’s faith.
April 2, 2025 By - 1 Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Gunmen robbing a Catholic last week in Pakistan decided to tie him up and gang-rape his wife after learning the couple’s faith, sources said. Adnan Masih, a 34-year-old brick kiln worker in Faisalabad District’s Chak 62-GB Channan village, and his wife were headed home on a motorcycle on […]
Judge in Pakistan Sentences Killer of Christian to Death
Convict’s relatives continue to threaten slain man’s family.
March 31, 2025 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A judge in Pakistan on Thursday (March 27) sentenced to death a Muslim who murdered a 20-year-old Christian in the presence of his family members, sources said. Saima Riyasat, additional sessions judge of Pasrur, Sialkot District, handed the country’s maximum punishment for murder to Muhammad Zubair for killing […]
Christian in Pakistan Charged with Blasphemy for Facebook Post
Impoverished sweeper says he has no knowledge of alleged material.
March 25, 2025 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Federal agents in Pakistan last week arrested a Christian under a blasphemy law mandating the death penalty in relation to material that appeared on Facebook groups without his knowledge, sources said. Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officials took 24-year-old Arsalan Gill of Railway Quarters in Mughalpura, Lahore, into custody […]
Muslim Slashes Throat of Christian Co-Worker in Pakistan
Suspect accused Waqas Masih of blasphemy.
March 24, 2025 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A Muslim in Pakistan on Friday (March 21) slashed the throat of a Christian co-worker on allegations that he had committed blasphemy by touching an Islamic textbook “with unclean hands,” sources said. The attack on Waqas Masih, 22, took place at Subhan Allah Paper Mills in the Sharaqpur […]