On 2nd January 2023, a violent crowd of tribal people vandalized a Church and smashed the statue of Saint Mary in Narayanpur district, Chhattisgarh, India. The group, armed with wooden sticks, iron rods, and stones, forced open the main gate of the Sacred Heart Church, in the heart of district headquarters, and started to pelt…
It has been almost a year and a half since Shagufta’s arrest and this is the second Christmas for the children without their mother. In a letter written by shagufta to her children, she revealed that she has become very weak and her blood pressure does not remain stable, and her physical and mental condition…
Lahore (8 September 2022): The human rights activists have expressed their grave concerns over the dismissal of the post-arrest bail application by Additional Session Judge, Lahore, filed by 57 years old, Anwar Masih, who has been behind bars for over two years now in a fabricated case of blasphemy. They have urged the courts to…
Lahore (17 August 2022): The human rights activists have voiced their concerns over the abduction followed by forced conversion and forcible marriage of a 12 years old Christian girl Zarvia Pervaiz, and they called upon the legislators to enact a law to criminalize forced faith conversions. They also urged the police authorities to recover her…
A Christian adult, Rehmat Masih s/o Iqbal Masih, was implicated in a fabricated case of blasphemy on declining the offer to change his religion. He has been behind the bars for over 5 months now at a jail in Pakistan, for allegedly defiling and desecrating the pages of the Holy Quran. The Police threatened the…
13 October 2020 Ali Azhar a Muslim man abducting 13-year-old Christian girl Arzoo Masih in Karachi’s St. Anthony’s Parish. Arzoo’s mother, Rita Masih, said she and her husband were at work on when they received a phone call from a relative that Arzoo had gone missing. The family immediately filed a First Information Report (FIR)…
A 18 to 19-year-old Christian daughter Anika, who belonged to Farozwala district Shakhupura, was forced by poverty and circumstances, at the behest of a woman in her neighborhood, Eden Villas Chaung Lahore, away from home, in someone’s house. 5000 He went to work on monthly income and stay in the same house day and night…
Reportedly, a 14-year-old Christian girl, Maria Shahbaz, was abducted in Faisalabad in Pakistan in April 2020 by Muhammad Naqash and his accomplice while she was travelling to her workplace. The Lahore High Court has recently overturned the verdict of a Sessions Court in Faisalabad which had directed that the victim is rehabilitated in a woman’s…
After Pakistan came into being in 1947, Quaid-e-Azam repeatedly assured complete equality to the minorities, but unfortunately, his promise has not been kept by Pakistanis. We need to ask ourselves the question and give deep reflection to what is happening in Pakistan today. We are negating Quaid’s message of Unity, Faith, and Discipline and are divided into…
