blasphemy laws

Yet another Christian nurse in Pakistan is being falsely accused of blaspheming Islam.

According to reports, Pakistani police tortured a Christian man into confessing to a false allegation of blaspheming Islam and illegally kept him in custody for more than two months.

Pakistan’s prime minister is calling for a boycott of the Western World until the United States and other democratic countries criminalize offensive speech against Islam.

Members of an Islamic extremist political party in Pakistan have reportedly forcibly converted a mentally challenged Catholic and are pressuring his family to renounce their faith.

According to sources, two Christian nurses complying with a supervisor’s orders to remove stickers at a government hospital were arrested in Faisalabad, Pakistan on Friday after a Muslim employee attacked one of them with a knife for the removal of a sticker bearing Koranic verses.

The five-year prison sentence on a man who reportedly shared a carton on social media blaspheming Islam’s prophet has been upheld in Algeria.

On March 10, the Lahore High Court changed a sentence of life imprisonment to the death penalty for a Christian convicted of sending a blasphemous text message in 2011.

On Feb. 7, armed Hindu extremists in India reportedly beat church members during a worship service and then pressured police to arrest more than 20 Christians on suspicion of forcible conversion.

The Lahore High Court has released a 20-year-old Christian on bail two years after his conviction under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws for allegedly posting a sacrilegious photograph on social media.

After sharing a cartoon about the prophet of Islam three years ago, a 43-year-old father of four has been sentenced to five years in prison.