Christians Under Attack

Pakistani Catholic sources have told the Fides news agency that a 24-year-old Christian woman who was kidnapped, forced to convert to Islam, and forced to marry a Muslim may soon be sold abroad.

Post awarded to Muslim Mian Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman, already Minister of Education and Health. At first the post was to go to Kamran Michael, the current Minister for Human Rights. The Muslim members of the Provincial Assembly against the fact that a Christian presents the budget. Condemnation from minority leaders and civil society.

LAHORE, PAKISTAN (Worthy News)-- A tense calm returned Thursday, June 2, to a Pakistani village in Pakistan's turbulent Punjab province after local Christians announced they had forgiven armed Muslims who attacked their church, mediators said.

Armed Muslims disrupt worship, damage altar, Bibles, cross.

LAHORE: Christians in Ghazi Minara, a village about three kilometres from Sheikhupura, fear for their security after a Muslim girl and a Christian boy eloped, pitting Muslims against the Christians of the area

LAHORE, Pakistan – An influential Muslim family in a village near Sheikhupura is holding a 17-year-old Christian girl hostage because one of her brothers allegedly eloped with a woman from the Muslim family.

Islamabad: May 2011. (Xavier William, Modern Tokyo Times) Pakistan, two more shocking cases have surfaced in Punjab which is the hub of extremism and hatred towards the Christian community. Two Christian women, Nusrat Bibi and Muneeran Bibi, are female sanitary workers at the Fatima Memorial Hospital in Lahore, Pakistan.

Islands on Saturday that will be broadcast by Fashion TV, following protests from hard-line Muslim groups.

Christians in Pakistan recently fled when a Muslim mob attacked a seminary and accused believers of desecrating the Quran.

A mob attacks homes and places of worship. The Christian minority is forced to flee fearful of more violence. The discovery of a burnt copy of the Qur‘an in a Christian cemetery sparks a reaction among Muslims. Restrictions are imposed on the right to assembly. Paul Bhatti meets victims, urging everyone to remain calm.

Two members of an extremist group open fire at the car of Rev Ashraf Paul in Lahore. His 24-year-old son is critically wounded but is now out of danger. In Faisalabad, a police officer rapes a 24-year-old woman over four days