Pakistan: Court grants breaks with “norm,” grants bail to Christian couple charged with blasphemy
A court in Pakistan has granted bail to a Christian couple charged with blasphemy, a move which a UK rights group described as a landmark break from the “norm,” UCA News reports.
Pakistan Christian Couple Longer In Jail Despite Doubts Over Blasphemy
A Christian couple remains in jail in Pakistan’s Punjab province as a judge decided to keep them behind bars for allegedly desecrating the Koran, deemed a holy book by Muslims, sources told Worthy News.
Pakistan: Christian couple detained, charged with blasphemy in Punjab Province
A Christian couple in Punjab Province, Pakistan have been charged and detained under the country’s notoriously harsh blasphemy laws, just weeks after mobs of Islamic extremists attacked more than 80 Christian homes and churches in the region, the Christian Post (CP) reports.
Pakistan Police Detain Pastor Over Shooting
Concerns remained Sunday about a pastor in eastern Pakistan who was reportedly detained for “faking” a shooting incident, although Worthy News and others witnessed him in hospital.
Beaten Pakistani Christian Activist Dead At 37
Pakistani Christian human rights activist Samuel Inayat, who was in urgent need of a kidney transplant after Muslim extremists beat him, has died, his family told Worthy News on Saturday.
Pakistan Christian Boy ‘Tortured’ For ‘Blasphemy’; Couple Detained
A 9-year-old Christian boy in Pakistan’s Punjab province and his family have reportedly fled their home after he was “falsely accused” of blasphemy against Islam and beaten up by his teacher and fellow students.
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