02/25/2019 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that four Christian women from the Farooq-e-Azam neighborhood of Karachi, Pakistan were falsely accused of blasphemy on February 19, 2019. Following the false accusation, a mob of enraged
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01/20/2019 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – On Saturday, January 12, the Supreme Court of Pakistan ordered the federal and provincial governments to pay compensation to individuals damaged by the protests that following the acquittal of Asia Bibi. The court gave the
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12/9/2018 Thailand (International Christian Concern) – Due to the intense persecution faced by Pakistani Christians each day, many have decided to leave their homeland to find refuge in a foreign country. This has left hundreds of Pakistani Christians that have left
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11/20/2018 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – Police in Pakistan have warned Christians that terrorists are planning an attack on their community following the Asia Bibi acquittal. According to Agenzia Fides, the Lahore Police Inspectorate warned Christians to be vigilant, claiming that
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Pakistani Christian mother-of-five, Aasia Bibi, who has been on death row since November 2010 after being convicted under the country’s notorious “blasphemy law”, has been saved from hanging by a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court. The decision to acquit
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The only Christian family in their area were beaten and saw their house set on fire last week in a city in Pakistan’s Punjab province. Then they were told they will be killed if they return. The family – an
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Pakistani Christians are encouraged by the victory of former cricketer Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party in July’s general election. In his first speech following the vote, Khan, now poised to become the country’s prime minister, stated, “When I came into politics, I wanted
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Authorities in northwest Pakistan have decided to allow house churches! This follows a decision made last month to close house churches in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a Taliban stronghold on the border of Afghanistan, due to “security concerns.” Christians had protested
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QUETTA, Pakistan/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Two suicide bombers stormed a packed Christian church in southwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least nine people and wounding up to 56, officials said, in the latest attack claimed by Islamic State in the country.
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On February 6th, the Pakistani National Assembly passed a law amending some criminal laws. For the first time, sectarianism, mass lynching and forced conversions will be punished, and the explicit aim of the legislation is to improve the conditions of
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