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Washington, D.C. – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that a Pakistani Christian was imprisoned on June 19 and faces the death penalty after a Muslim man accused him of blasphemy in Faisalabad, Pakistan. Sajid Hameed Bajwa accused Rehmat Masih of blaspheming the prophet Muhammad. According to article 295 C of Pakistan’s penal code, blaspheming Muhammad [...] A typical shop in Faisalabad, Pakistan Washington, D.C. – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that police arrested Imran John, a 22-year-old shopkeeper, for blasphemy on July 1 in Faisalabad, Pakistan. Imran was arrested after he was accused by Haji Liaqat, a neighboring Muslim shopkeeper, of burning pages of the Qur’an. Imran had been cleaning his [...] Washington, D.C. – International Christian Concern (ICC) is calling on Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari to defend religious freedom by taking swift measures to prosecute the Muslim mobs that attacked Christian neighborhoods near Faisalabad, Pakistan, burning over 100 homes and killing at least eight Christians in two related attacks occurring on July 31 and August [...] |
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