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Babar Sandhu Masih was resting after lunch on Thursday afternoon (May 18) when he heard a commotion outside his house in the Qurban Lines neighborhood of Lahore, Pakistan.

His voice shaky, Saleem Masih said his family has been living in fear since Nov. 29, when his son was arrested on false accusations of blasphemy – which can carry the death penalty in Pakistan.

A United Kingdom-based regulator has banned an album poster of pop singer and actress Demi Lovato after it was deemed offensive to Christians.

A two-member bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday granted bail to a Christian in a blasphemy case, with one of the justices expressing concern over blatant misuse of the law, the attorney of the accused said.

Hopes for freedom of two Christian brothers on death row under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws were dashed this month when a court in Pakistan upheld their death sentence despite lack of evidence against them, their lawyers said.

According to sources, a mentally ill Christian jailed since March 2019 on a charge of blasphemy, punishable by death, has been granted bail.

According to a human rights leader, a Muslim supervisor is threatening to file blasphemy charges against a Christian sanitation worker in Pakistan if she refuses to withdraw her sexual assault accusation against him.

 Police in Lahore, Pakistan have charged two Christians with blasphemy after Muslims objected to their Bible study in a park, the attorney for one of the accused said.

When recently asked if claims that Paris Jackson would be playing a lesbian Jesus in the upcoming film Habit, the movie's producer dismissed the claims calling them "absolute nonsense."

Several Christian organizations have created petitions calling for the cancellation of a film that will allegedly portray Jesus as a lesbian woman.