By Shamim Masih ISLAMABAD: Zafar Bhatti accused of blasphemy case confined in the Central Jail Adiala Rawalpindi, is perfectly fine and fit, says his wife Nawab Bibi after visiting him the jail on September 29, 2014. She is thankful to Tahir Naveed Chaudhary, Chairman Pakistan Minorities Alliance – PMA and Basharat Khokhar, Right Activist for arranging their visit to Adiala Jail. According to false reports Zafar Bhatti victim of the 295-C imprisoned in Adayla Jail was attacked some time after after the attack on Muslim victim Muhammad Asghar, another blasphemy inmate at the same prison. Read more about the attack…
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By – Shamim Masih ISLAMABAD: Zafar Bhatti accused of blasphemy case confined in the Central Jail Adiala Rawalpindi, is perfectly fine and fit, says his wife Nawab Bibi after visiting him the jail on September 29, 2014. She is thankful to Tahir Naveed Chaudhary, Chairman Pakistan Minorities Alliance – PMA and Basharat Khokhar, Right Activist for arranging their visit to Adayal Jail. According to false reports Zafar Bhatti victim of the 295-C imprisoned in Adayla Jail was attacked some time after after the attack on Muslim victim Muhammad Asghar, another blasphemy inmate at the same prison. Read more about the…
An excerpt from “the targeting of ‘ Minority’ others in Pakistan” A copy of the letter obtained by International Christian Concern (ICC) in October 2009 warned “Christians to convert to Islam, pay Jizya tax (an Islamic tax imposed on religious minorities) or leave the country. If Christians refuse[d] to accept the choices given to them, ICC has learned that … members of the Taliban”, who sent these “threatening letters in Sargodha, Pakistan, … explain[ed] that they ‘would be killed, their property and homes would be burnt to ashes and their women would be treated as sex slaves. And they themselves…
Rawalpindi: (Shamim Masih) – Asghar Ali victim of blasphemy case was shot by the police constable within the premises of Central Jail Adayla Rawalpindi this morning. According to reports, Asghar Ali s/o Hakam Dad, A Muslim by faith and victim of the notorious blasphemy laws (Section 295-C) of Pakistan, case FIR No. 665/10 PS Sadiqabad, was being confined in Adalia Jail, Rawapindi. Today he was shot by a police constable named Yousaf, who was appointed for his security. He was immediately taken to hospital and is in critical condition. Mr Ali was sentenced to death in January. Today’s shooting incident occurred within…
The extent of the targeting of Christians, noted Gregory in a 2008 report, “is instructive because it shows that violence against Christians is widespread across the whole of Pakistan, from Muree in the North to Karachi in the South and from Lahore in the East to Peshawar in the West. It shows that violence is rural and urban, including in the capital; and that it involves ad hoc apparently spontaneous acts of violence, as well as organised violence and violence in which government authorities, local and national, collude either directly or by omission. It evidences a complex and multi-dimensional pattern…
ACN News: Friday, 19th September 2014 – IRAQ/UN With pictures of the UN meeting © Aid to the Church in Need By John Newton and Oliver Maksan THE leaders of Iraq’s Christians have called on the United Nations to urgently address the growing refugee crisis before a freezing winter forces displaced Christians to leave the country. “We Christians in Iraq have a future if the international community gives us immediate assistance. Don’t forget us,” Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako told a conference at the UN in Geneva. The patriarch told the delegates that “People are disappointed how little help has been received to date.”…
A professor of Islam known for his liberal religious views, was gunned down in Gulshan-e-Iqbal area of Karachi. The incident took place on Thursday 18th September 2014, after a Madrassah issued a Fatwa (Islamic Decree) relating to alleged blasphemy and apostasy against him. Dr Auj had issued controversial fatwas (religious decrees) declaring that a Muslim woman could marry a non-Muslim man, and that women need not remove lipstick or nail polish before saying their prayers. Due to such views he was accused of apostasy and blasphemy. Dr Auj was fighting a legal case against the originator of a widely-circulated text…
British Pakistani Christian Association has secured funding for a series of free gymnastics and Dance classes, for children between the ages of 6-11, for a period of 20 weeks. Read more in the Ilford Recorder (click here) The classes will help create healthier lifestyles for children from the deprived communities of Loxford and Clementswood Ward, in Ilford. Sessions are funded by the Church Urban Fund within their “Health and Belief” programme. Coupled with the course will be a series of free health tests and nutritional advice and support. Partner Groups include the North London Health Foundation Trust, Redbridge Healthy Eating…
Image of Ilford Mammoth at Natural History Museum. BPCA is co-hosting a celebration of the mammoth remains uncovered in our local borough of Redbridge in 1864. Whether you believe in seven literal days for creation or seven periods of time, it is impossible to discount the existence of mammoths. The BPCA does not believe that there is a conflict between science and God and we would argue that the the natural orderliness and laws within God’s creation, underpins scientific enterprise i.e. nature has to be regular for us to learn from scientific testing. The event will be a wonderful opportunity…
Image of Ilford Mammoth at Natural History Museum. BPCA is co-hosting a celebration of the mammoth remains uncovered in our local borough of Redbridge in 1864. Whether you believe in seven literal days for creation or seven periods of time, it is impossible to discount the existence of mammoths. The BPCA does not believe that there is a conflict between science and God and we would argue that the the natural orderliness and laws within God’s creation, underpins scientific enterprise i.e. nature has to be regular for us to learn from scientific testing. The event will be a wonderful…