Christians Under Attack

Fearing conviction, five suspects said to beat 15- and 21-year-old into dropping charges.

Rawalpindi: March 16, 2010. (Xavier William reports for PCP) Young energetic Christian youth Imtiaz John was laid to rest here today in Westridge graveyard

LAHORE/KASUR (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian couple, remained detained Thursday, March 11, as they began serving a 25-year prison term for blasphemy against Islam shortly after another

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Six Pakistani employees of the American Christian charity World Vision were killed Wednesday and seven others were

LAHORE, PUNHAB (BosNewsLife)-- A young Christian man died of a heart attack after armed Muslim gunmen stormed his house

The story of kidnapped Sikhs in Pakistan has had a new revelation, with the two men revealing in their 42 day captivity they were

GUJRANWALA, PAKISTAN (ANS) -- A 34-year-old Christian woman was accused of blasphemy on March 1, 2010, in Wandu, a village in the Gujranawala district of Pakistan’s Punjab state, when she refused to sell her cosmetics shop to aspiring Muslim shop owners in the market.

Qamar David was in prison since 2006. In the weeks after his arrest police failed to find any concrete evidence against him. Muslim co-defendant acquitted, for lack of evidence. Christian activists: verdict result of "influences and prejudices” and motivated by “ external pressures ".

KARACHI, Pakistan (Compass Direct News) – In the wake of an attack this week by 150 armed Muslims on a Christian colony near this city in Sindh Province, police have filed a false First Information Report (FIR) against 40 unnamed Christians and arrested five, Christian leaders said

Brothers converted by Muslim cleric who raised them leave him for dead.

 In an Islamic country like Pakistan - if a Muslim accuses a non-Muslim of desecrating the Koran or blasphemy against the Prophet or Islam - that's pretty much it! Although the law may call for equal treatment - the court would attribute twice as much weight to a Muslim's word over a non-Muslim - in this and other incidents -which is in line with Islamic Shari'a law.