Woman sentenced to death after forwarding message on social media critical...
By Caleb Campos –
After allegedly insulting the prophet Muhammad on WhatsApp, Shagufta Kiran, a mother of four, was sentenced to death under Pakistan's blasphemy...
Tourist lynched and burned alive for alleged blasphemy
By Massimo Introvigne --
After the case of Christian Nazir Gil Masih, lynched in Sargodha on May 25 after he was falsely accused of having burned...
The women who work in the brick kilns in Pakistan
Amid the steady hum of chatter exists a silent symphony of suffering where women toil day
and night to meet not only their brick quota,...
Pakistan: Christian teen kidnapped, forced into sex slavery
A Christian girl rescued from a Muslim in Pakistan who abducted her said he forcibly
converted her, sexually assaulted her as part of a sham...
Christian woman thrown into hay cutting machine denied justice
Saima Bibi was serving tea to guests at her quarters in Punjab Province, Pakistan when her
Muslim employer dragged her outside and pushed her towards...
Man lynched after accusation of desecrating Qur’an
A man was violently lynched by a mob after he was accused of desecrating the Qur’an in
the Madyan area of the Swat Valley in...
Christian on death row for 22 years because of letter he...
In a significant move, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has directed the country’s top Islamic
body to advise on whether a letter that left a...
One city emerges as capital of false blasphemy charges
By Massimo Introvigne --
On August 12, in the Kasur area of Punjab, police registered a criminal case involving blasphemy charges against two women—one being...
Christian man falsely accused, shot by neighbors
By Sandra Marroquín –
A Christian Pakistani man accused of burning one of Islam’s holy books was shot by his neighbors. He died later in...
Christian family forced off farmland they leased
Police in Pakistan are refusing to arrest Muslims who attacked a Christian family and seized
their farm land, and officers also damaged property, sources said.
Shahnaz...