LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Members of an Islamic extremist political party in Pakistan have forcibly converted a mentally challenged Catholic and are pressuring his family to renounce their faith, a relative said. Adnan Bashir, 40, wandered out of his home in Gujjar Khan, Punjab Province on April 14 and inadvertently walked into a sit-in […]
Islamists in Pakistan Forcibly ‘Convert’ Catholic, Threaten Family
Muslims say harm will come if mentally challenged man ‘leaves’ Islam.
April 25, 2021 By -
Christian Nurses Arrested under Blasphemy Law in Pakistan
Muslim co-workers instigate attacks against two women, sources say.
April 11, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Two Christian nurses complying with a supervisor’s orders to remove stickers at a government hospital were arrested in Faisalabad, Pakistan on Friday (April 9) after a Muslim employee attacked one of them with a knife for the removal of a sticker bearing Koranic verses, sources said. Nurse Mariam Lal and […]
Life Sentence for Christian Changed to Death Penalty
Judge bows to Islamist legal group’s pressure.
March 19, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Ruling in favor of an Islamist legal group’s petition, the Lahore High Court on March 10 changed a sentence of life imprisonment to the death penalty for a Christian convicted of sending a blasphemous text message in 2011. The high court’s approval of an appeal for the criminal code revision […]
Another Christian Girl in Pakistan Kidnapped, Forcibly Converted
Police shielding kidnappers, keeping parents from 13-year-old, sources say.
March 12, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Johnson Masih and his wife Samina were shocked when police in Lahore, Pakistan told them their 13-year-old daughter, missing since Feb. 19, had converted to Islam and married a Muslim. A few days after registering a missing person report with police on Feb. 21, the investigating officer summoned them to […]
Christian in Pakistan Convicted of ‘Blasphemy’ Released on Bail
Appeal of Christian couple on death row again inexplicably delayed.
March 2, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – The Lahore High Court has released on bail a 20-year-old Christian two years after his conviction under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws for allegedly posting a sacrilegious photograph on social media, his lawyer said. Incarcerated since his arrest in 2016, Nabeel Masih became the youngest person to be charged with blasphemy in […]
Father Recovers Forcibly Converted/Married Daughter
12-year-old girl in Pakistan was found chained in home of ‘husband.’
February 18, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Asif Masih beamed with joy to have his 12-year-old daughter back home on Tuesday (Feb. 16) in Faisalabad, Pakistan following her alleged kidnapping and forcible conversion and marriage to a 45-year-old Muslim. “Praise God, for He has answered our prayers and rescued my daughter,” Masih said hours after Faisalabad Session […]
Two Christians Studying Bible in Park Charged with Blasphemy
Far-right Islamist group in Pakistan enlisted to pressure police, lawyer says.
February 16, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Police in Lahore, Pakistan have charged two Christians with blasphemy after Muslims objected to their Bible study in a park last weekend, the attorney for one of the accused said. Haroon Ayub Masih, 26, and friend Salamat Mansha Masih, about the same age, were studying the Bible in Lahore’s Model […]
Police Hamper Prosecution of Accused Killers, Sources Say
Officers lie, remove evidence to cripple case against Muslim suspects, attorney says.
February 8, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Suspects in the killing of a young Christian man a year ago in Pakistan have been freed on bail due to police connivance and are issuing death threats to pressure relatives to drop the case, sources said. Muslim land-owners upset with farmworker Saleem Masih, 22, for “polluting” their tube-well by […]
Attacked Christian Nurse Charged with Blasphemy in Pakistan
Hospital personnel strike, badger and lock her in room.
January 29, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Police in Pakistan who had dismissed accusations of blasphemy against a Christian nurse who was attacked by hospital personnel registered a case against her today after pressure from an Islamist mob, sources said. Staff members of the hospital in Karachi on Thursday (Jan. 28) slapped, beat and locked nurse Tabeeta Nazir […]
Catholic Girl, 12, Likely to Return to Muslim Abductor, Advocates Fear
Courts, police and shelter home in Pakistan subvert justice, sources say.
January 26, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Advocates for a 12-year-old Catholic girl found tortured and chained in the home of a Muslim in Pakistan fear he will regain custody after she testified that she converted and wed him of her own free will, sources said. Charges of abduction and rape against 45-year-old Khizar Hayat and two […]