Christians Under Attack

LAHORE, Pakistan (UCAN) -- A Church center in Pakistan's cosmopolitan eastern city of Lahore has been threatened with a suicide bomb attack, one of a series of intimidating messages given to Christians as the country's security crisis worsens

(PCP report) The lawyer of family of Muslim girl was passing derogatory remarks in court arguments

And not just with his hourly billing charges, either. Here is yet another example of how Pakistan's blasphemy laws are used to terrorize innocent people. An update on this story: "Pakistan: Lawyer Threatens To Kill Christian

CLAAS is calling on the Pakistani Government to ban forced conversions after a group of Muslim men raped a 14-year-old Christian girl and forced her to convert to Islam.

Police in Muslim-majority nation suspected of corruption.

WASHINGTON, D.C.  - International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Noor Husain, the father of a Muslim woman who eloped with a Christian man, led a mob of

One woman has been killed, and 28 people have been injured at the Presbyterian church in Songo. Violence is on the rise in the Swat Valley and in the northern regions. Thousands of people are fleeing after the introduction of sharia, including many teachers and entire families. In Takhtbhai, in the district of Mardan, there have been bomb attacks on 16 music stores.

A Christian milkman has been murdered in Pakistan after demanding his pay cheque from his Muslim employers, according to International Christian Concern.

Christians in Pakistan face an upswing in violence from militant Muslims | Jamie Dean

The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) www.persecution.org has just learned that six unidentified men went on a robbing spree in a rural village in Pakistan on the night of January 10, and when they realized that one of the households they were robbing was Christian, they gang-raped a 14-year-old girl in front of her parents to violate their faith

At the origin of the violence is a dispute over land acquired by a Catholic of the village, and the marriage between a Christian young man and a Muslim young woman. In spite of the charges, the local police have not yet arrested anyone.