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 [...]
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Greetings to you in the name of Jesus
We need your prayers and financial support for the Pakistan christians.
Muslims have attacked a nearby Christian village and burnt down people’s homes and killed people.
Nearly 100 homes and 15 people.
The people who are left have nothing to eat or a place to live.
This a big [...]
NEW YORK /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) expressed grave concern for the safety of Pakistan’s Christian minority, after the brutal murder of a family by a Muslim mob. The grandfather was shot dead and the other six family members, including two children, died after their house was set on fire. More than 100 [...]
Washington, D.C. – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that a Christian businessman was shot eight times in the legs while driving through Lahore, Pakistan on July 7 after refusing to pay protection money to a Muslim.Suqlain Shah, an ex-policeman, and another man, Sudia, stopped Ayub Gill’s car at 2:25 in the afternoon as Ayub [...]