PAKISTAN: Covid-19 aid distribution gets underway
Volunteers distributed packs containing basic foodstuffs (flour, rice, lentils etc) to needy Christians in Lahore
Category: Pakistan
PAKISTAN: Christians denied aid during Covid-19 crisis
Christian leaders have reported several incidents in which Christians have been denied food aid amid the Covid-19 crisis.
Covid-19 and the persecuted church
As the Covid-19 pandemic spreads around the globe, some of the countries from which Church in Chains reports regularly have been very badly hit.
PAKISTAN: Court validates forced conversion and marriage of 14-year-old Christian
On 4 March, an appeal against Sindh High Court’s validation of the forced conversion and marriage of 14-year-old Huma Younas was adjourned and rescheduled for 29 March.
PAKISTAN: Christian tortured to death for “polluting” well
Christian farm labourer Saleem Masih died of severe internal injuries after Muslims tortured him for “polluting” a well.
PAKISTAN: Further delays to blasphemy cases
Pakistani Christians Zafar Bhatti and Sawan Masih have had their appeal hearings adjourned again.
PAKISTAN: Asia Bibi gives first newspaper interview since release
In her first newspaper interview since being released from prison, Asia Bibi has spoken of the despair she often felt during her long wait for justice.
PAKISTAN: Ambassador says “it is going to take time to change attitudes”
Mr Sardar Shuja Alam (Ambassador of Pakistan) has said he believes that Pakistan’s government cannot immediately reform the country’s blasphemy laws.
PAKISTAN: Zafar Bhatti’s appeal adjourned for seventh time
On 19 June, the appeal of Zafar Bhatti against the life sentence for blasphemy was adjourned yet again.
PAKISTAN: Asia Bibi’s lawyer takes up case of Shagufta Kausar and Shafqat Emmanuel
Asia Bibi’s lawyer Saiful Malook has taken up the case of Pakistani Christian couple Shagufta Kausar and Shafqat Emmanuel, sentenced to death for blasphemy in April 2014.