As Asia Bibi, the Pakistan Catholic mother who was almost a decade on trial for blasphemy charges, was granted leave to depart the country last week, her lawyer took on a new case very similar to hers. Her lawyer Saif-ul-Malook,…
Asia Bibi has finally left Pakistan and is safely in Canada with her family who was already in the country after they were granted asylum. Asia, a wife and mother, had been on death row for eight years on false…
Asia Bibi was barred from leaving Pakistan in October of last year, after an appeal was filed against her acquittal from the death penalty on charges of blasphemy. Praise the Lord that on 29 January 2019 the Pakistani Supreme court…
When the Pakistani Supreme Court, on 31 October, ordered the immediate release of Asia (Aasiya) Bibi, who has spent over eight years on death row, “we were all freed,” said a local Christian. Unfortunately, not long after her release, protests…
A 12-year-old Pakistani Christian girl, Elisha, who disappeared in November, was abducted, forced to convert to Islam and marry her abductor, according to her father, Iqbal Masih. When Masih went to the police to lay a charge of abduction, they…
In Pakistan, many Christians are forced to do jobs that are degrading because they are seen as “untouchables” or part of what is referred to as “scheduled castes” – a carryover from India, during British colonial times. (Many people from…
More than 65 people have reportedly been killed on Sunday, March 27, when suicide bombers rigged the rides at the Iqbal Park in Lahore, Pakistan. A militant group associated with the Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for the attack. On…
Pakistan executed the murderer of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, who had justified the 2011 assassination based on Taseer’s desire for reforms in the blasphemy law, and for his support of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman condemned to death as a…
According to World Watch Monitor, at least 17 people were killed, and 80 others injured, as two churches in the main Christian district of Lahore, Pakistan, were attacked on 15 March. An Islamist group, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, linked to the Pakistan Taliban,…