LAHORE, Pakistan, July 6, 2015 (Morning Star News) – In two cases raising the specter of religious profiling, Islamic extremist threats have forced a leading Catholic educator to flee Pakistan, and a judge has upheld the controversial expulsion of three Filipino nuns. Bernadette L. Dean, an educator on Sindh Province’s committee for curriculum and textbook […]
Catholic Educator Flees Pakistan amid ‘Hate Campaign’ by Islamic Extremists
Separately, judge upholds expulsion of Filipino nuns.
July 6, 2015 By -
Islamic Cleric in Pakistan Arrested in Mob Attack on Christians Accused of Blasphemy
Rare instance of police intervention saves couple.
July 5, 2015 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – In a rare move by Pakistani police, an Islamist cleric was taken into custody on Friday (July 3) for inciting a Muslim mob to try to kill a Christian couple for alleged desecration of the Koran, a police official said. Area residents and rights activists told Morning Star News that hundreds […]
Blasphemy Law Reform Drafted in Pakistan as Three More Christians Are Accused
‘Bad intent’ must be proven for conviction under new legislation.
June 17, 2015 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – The Pakistani government has finished drafting a bill to combat abuse of blasphemy laws to which three Christians in the past month alone have fallen prey, sources said. In Nankana Sahib District of Punjab Province, a Muslim accused a 94-year-old Christian landowner of blaspheming Islam in retaliation for the landowner’s attempt […]
Islamic Mob Attacks Houses, Church over ‘Blasphemy’ Accusation in Pakistan
Mentally challenged Christian accused of burning papers containing koranic verses.
May 26, 2015 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Christians in Lahore are on edge after hundreds of Muslims attacked houses and a church building on Sunday night (May 24) in response to accusations that a Christian set fire to papers with koranic verses on them. Chaudhry Alam Masih, a resident of Dhoop Sari in Lahore’s Sandha area, told Morning […]
Police in Pakistan Deny Christian Youth’s Statement on Who Attacked, Killed Him
Official denies boy’s declaration that two Muslims set him ablaze because of his faith.
April 16, 2015 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A Christian boy in Pakistan told police two Muslims set him on fire because of his faith before he died from his burns Wednesday (April 15), according to a human rights advocate, but police denied taking the statement. Nauman Masih, 14, told police in Lahore that two masked men on […]
Religious Tensions Simmer Across Pakistan following Church Bombings
Christian leaders condemn retaliation killings by furious Christian mobs.
March 16, 2015 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Tensions simmered across Pakistan between the Muslim majority and Christians following Sunday’s (March 15) deadly gun-and-bomb attacks on two churches and the subsequent killing of two Muslims here. At least 17 people, including two policemen, have succumbed to their injuries from the suicide attacks in Lahore’s Youhanabad area, which targeted […]
Christians Excluded from Pakistan’s ‘Blasphemy’ Cases Fast-Tracked for Acquittal
Officials fear 'violent reaction' if they examine cases of non-Muslims.
February 13, 2015 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Punjab Province has excluded Christians from a list of people accused without basis of blaspheming Islam who will have their cases expedited for acquittal, sources said. Pointing to several Christians languishing in jail on trumped-up blasphemy charges, Christian rights and political activists say discrimination against religious minorities was behind the selection […]
Charlie Hebdo Protestors Ransack Christian School in Pakistan, Demand Closure
Security said to be lax just weeks after massacre at school in Peshawar.
January 29, 2015 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Among several protests across Pakistan against a French satire magazine’s cartoons of Islam’s prophet Muhammad, hundreds of Muslims in a terrorist-infested northwestern province on Monday (Jan. 26) stormed a Christian school, demanding its closure. Some 300 protestors from local schools and colleges entered the premises of Panel High School for […]
Morning Star News’ Top 10 Persecution Stories of 2014
For once, good news – miraculous righting of horrific injustice in Sudan – tops list.
January 9, 2015 By -
(Morning Star News) – In a year that saw a new level of cruelty unleashed upon Christians and other religious minorities across Syria, Iraq and Africa, one once obscure case of injustice in Sudan turned into a titanic battle that gripped the world’s attention. The battle appeared to be spiritual as much as legal. 1 – […]
As Injustice Escalates, Senator in Pakistan Seeks Solution to ‘Blasphemy’ Violence
Christian mother of five appeals death sentence; blogger in hiding is arrested.
December 5, 2014 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – In the span of one month, a Christian blogger who hid for more than three years on a blasphemy charge was arrested; a Christian mother of five sentenced to death for allegedly speaking ill of Muhammad filed her appeal with the Supreme Court; and a mob tortured and […]