Christians Under Attack

New York, August 3: The attack on Christian families in Gojra in central Pakistan, the culmination of several days of rioting over a claim that a Koran had been defiled, shows how insecure life is for the tiny Christian minority in the country.

One of them is a child of 7 years. Among the dead there are 4 women. Religious and militant Islamic fundamentalists were inciting the crowd. The fuel is the same as that used in the destruction of Shanti Nagar (1997); Sangla Hill (2005) and Koriyan, a day before. The police accused of negligence.

* Govt to act against those responsible, compensate Christian families

By Ali Usman

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.