A small Pakistani Christian community of two families was set upon by a furious Islamic mob last week after being accused of insulting a Muslim man and committing blasphemy.
A small Pakistani Christian community of two families was set upon by a furious Islamic mob last week after being accused of insulting a Muslim man and committing blasphemy.
The former cell of Asia Bibi is now being used to hold another Christian woman in Pakistan.
After being on death row for eight years and protective custody for another, Pakistani Christian Asia Bibi has made it out of Pakistan.
The Christian woman who was accused of blasphemy against Islam and kept in Pakistan will be released soon.
Returning home from a night shift at a call center on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan on Feb. 25, Naveed Iqbal learned from his sons that a local criminal and three other men had taken his wife away, he said.
A Christian with a mental disability in Pakistan has been arrested under the country’s blasphemy law after a Muslim neighbor outside his home overheard him arguing inside, sources said.
Pakistani judges upheld their acquittal of Asia Bibi and she is now free to leave the country to join her family in Canada.
Two Christian brothers were accused of insulting Muhammad online.
A Christian mother who spent nine years on death row before being acquitted in Pakistan’s most high-profile blasphemy case was released from prison late Wednesday night (Nov. 7), sources said.
The Pakistani government on Friday (Nov. 2) capitulated to demands of Islamist groups protesting the acquittal of Christian mother Aasiya Noreen, better known as Asia Bibi, by agreeing to allow the possibility of a Supreme Court review of the verdict.
