SARGODHA, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – An elderly Christian was fighting for his life in the hospital after a Muslim mob in Pakistan attempted to kill him due to a neighbor falsely accusing him of burning pages of the Quran, his family said. The mob also ransacked the house and burned the shoe factory […]
Elderly Christian Critically Wounded in Pakistan after False Blasphemy Charge
Angry Muslim mob also burns his factory.
May 25, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
Ad Targeting Christians in Pakistan Criticized
Notice for sanitation workers is discriminatory, they say.
May 21, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – An ad for sanitation workers targeting Christians in Pakistan has prompted objections that it signals only Christians should work such low-paying jobs. The ad soliciting candidates for sweepers at health facilities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province states, “Christian community will be preferred.” It was posted by Trans-Continental Pharma, a […]
Justice Denied Christian Woman Cast into Chaff Cutter in Pakistan
Police refuse to prosecute influential Muslim employer.
May 15, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Saima Bibi was serving tea to guests at her quarters in Punjab Province, Pakistan when her Muslim employer dragged her outside and pushed her towards an electric chaff cutter, tearing off her ear and cutting most of her scalp, her husband said. The 24-year-old Christian mother of two […]
Police Help Assailants Seize Christians’ Land in Pakistan
Officers damage property and refuse to arrest attackers.
May 3, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Police in Pakistan are refusing to arrest Muslims who attacked a Catholic family and seized their farm land, and officers also damaged property, sources said. Shahnaz Yousaf, a resident of Chak 694/36 GB village in Toba Tek Singh District, Punjab Province, said that dozens of armed Muslims […]
Bill in Pakistan Would Outlaw Child Marriages
Christians hope it will help prevent forced marriages/conversions.
May 1, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A bill designed to prevent child marriages in Pakistan’s most populated province has raised hope for protection of Christian girls and others from Muslims abducting and forcibly marrying and converting them, sources said. The Punjab Province government on Thursday (April 25) submitted the draft of the Punjab Child […]
Girl Kidnapped, Forcibly Converted/Married in Pakistan
He had taken 15-year-old daughter out of school to protect her.
April 25, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A Christian father in Pakistan who took his 15-year-old daughter out of school to protect her from harassment by a Muslim is now trying to free her from kidnapping and forcible marriage/conversion by the same man, he said. “It’s been nearly two months now that I’m desperately searching […]
Court in Pakistan Orders Change in Legal Marriage Age
Different minimums for males and females ruled discriminatory.
April 24, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A high court in Pakistan last week ordered a provincial government to remove gender-based age distinction in its child marriage law, a move aimed at deterring forced conversions and forced marriages of girls, sources said. Lahore High Court Justice Shahid Karim on April 15 declared as “discriminatory” Punjab […]
Pakistan Told to Address Forced Marriages, Conversions of Girls
Christians and those of other minority religions are vulnerable.
April 12, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – U.N. human rights experts on Thursday (April 11) called on Pakistan to make legal changes in light of continued vulnerability of women and girls of minority faiths to forced marriages and religious conversions. The U.N. special rapporteurs demanded Pakistan raise the legal age for girls to marry to […]
Christian Laborer in Pakistan Shot for Requesting Wages
Muslim employers beat him with iron rods.
April 5, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Muslim farm owners in Pakistan on March 23 beat a Christian laborer with iron rods and shot him in the leg for requesting his wages owed him, sources said. Waqas Masih, a 42-year-old farm laborer in Chak No. 8 Panj Garaiyan Kamalpur village in Faisalabad District, Punjab Province, […]
Family of Slain Christian in Pakistan Receives Death Threats
Armed, Muslim relatives of alleged killer barge into home.
April 3, 2024 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Muslim relatives of the alleged killer of a 20-year-old Christian in Pakistan are threatening the victim’s family with death if they do not drop charges, sources said. Muhammad Zubair initially confessed to killing Farhan Ul Qamar in his house in Talwandi Inayat Khan village, Pasrur tehsil of Sialkot […]