Christian accused of blasphemy dies from injuries in Pakistan
An elderly Christian man attacked by a Muslim mob in Pakistan over a false blasphemy accusation succumbed to his injuries at 12:30 a.m. Monday (June 3), his son said.
An elderly Christian man attacked by a Muslim mob in Pakistan over a false blasphemy accusation succumbed to his injuries at 12:30 a.m. Monday (June 3), his son said.
Jihadist insurgents in Mozambique are targeting Christians as they ramp up attacks in the country’s northern-most province, just as neighboring countries are planning to withdraw troops helping government forces to fight them.
Two evangelists are still receiving hospital treatment two weeks after hardline Muslims in eastern Uganda beat them unconscious for proclaiming Christ, sources said.
With suspects in a homicide case pressuring the victim’s relatives to make false statements, police in Pakistan are declining to arrest them in the case of a Catholic tortured to death by his Muslim employers, sources said.
A court in Pakistan denied a Christian victim of fake conversion to change the religious designation of Islam and the Muslim name that his Muslim employers fraudulently registered on his National Identity Card, sources said.
Muslims upset with a Christian sanitation worker in Lahore, Pakistan on Saturday (May 25) beat him and left him chained in blistering heat for hours, sources said.
A Muslim in Somalia was seriously wounded for putting his faith in Christ this month and lost his wife and five children, sources said.
A Christian in Sargodha, Pakistan who was critically wounded in a mob attack on Saturday (May 25) due to false allegations of blasphemy is in stable condition, sources said.
An elderly Christian is 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.
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An ad for sanitation workers targeting Christians in Pakistan has prompted objections that it signals only Christians should work such low-paying jobs.