Police in Pakistan are doing little to protect the minority Christian community from the harassment they face from the Muslim majority, including threats to convert to Islam or abandon their homes, according to an Asian Human Rights Commission report.
While attacks and persecution against Christians have been ongoing throughout the country in the past few years,
AHRC said in its report that Christians residing in Chak 44, Mandi Bahaudin, Punjab Province, have especially faced aggression at the hands of the local Muslim community.
The human rights report summarized several local instances of Muslims placing conditions on Christians to choose between converting to Islam or leaving the village, a threat which police have done little to respond to. What is more, Christians often face unsubstantiated allegations of blasphemy, which puts them in trouble with Islamic clerics.
Christian residents of Chak 44 have said as many as 75 percent of followers of Christ have fled from the village, while those who remain have no food to eat, with the local Muslims refusing to sell them provisions.
"The situation is getting worse with each passing day. The Christians are living in constant fear that their houses may be set on fire by a mob if the police does not provide them with round the clock security," the AHRC report warned.
The human rights group has called on both the central Pakistan government and the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the freedom of religion to intervene and pressure local police to do more to ensure the safety of worshipers, as well as to bring perpetrators of violence to justice.
Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-persecution-on-rise-pakistan-believers-fear-torching-homes-muslim-mobs-166090/#3rGHtjLfxsOUiutZ.99
Police in Pakistan are doing little to protect the minority Christian community from the harassment they face from the Muslim majority, including threats to convert to Islam or abandon their homes, according to an Asian Human Rights Commission report.
While attacks and persecution against Christians have been ongoing throughout the country in the past few years,
AHRC said in its report that Christians residing in Chak 44, Mandi Bahaudin, Punjab Province, have especially faced aggression at the hands of the local Muslim community.
The human rights report summarized several local instances of Muslims placing conditions on Christians to choose between converting to Islam or leaving the village, a threat which police have done little to respond to. What is more, Christians often face unsubstantiated allegations of blasphemy, which puts them in trouble with Islamic clerics.
Christian residents of Chak 44 have said as many as 75 percent of followers of Christ have fled from the village, while those who remain have no food to eat, with the local Muslims refusing to sell them provisions.
"The situation is getting worse with each passing day. The Christians are living in constant fear that their houses may be set on fire by a mob if the police does not provide them with round the clock security," the AHRC report warned.
The human rights group has called on both the central Pakistan government and the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the freedom of religion to intervene and pressure local police to do more to ensure the safety of worshipers, as well as to bring perpetrators of violence to justice.
Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-persecution-on-rise-pakistan-believers-fear-torching-homes-muslim-mobs-166090/#3rGHtjLfxsOUiutZ.99
Ultra terror group Islamic State poses a greater threat to the world than by atomic bombs, says Pastor Samuel Khokhar. In the wake of growing terrorism across the globe there is an inevitable need to stamp out inciters of terrorism and terror outfits including Islamic State.
“If the menace of Islamic State is not done away with, the world will not be a safer place for our generations to come,” he said. Terrorism has enveloped Pakistan and the entire world; as a result Islam is being defamed owing to ISIS and other terror groups.
Pastor Samuel said that all religions including Muslims and international community should join forces against ISIS. Each country should play a role in ridding the world from this peril of terrorism. “ISIS has ringed alarm bells for the entire world,” he said.
He went on to explain that the terrorist start targeting the land where they have born and been bred. They carry out suicide attack in their own homeland, not even sparing their own birthplace. This is a clear indication of moral degeneration in their minds and character. Every religion forbids such acts, he said.
“These terrorists eye for a state inside a state. Their only mission is to conquer the world,” he explained. The painstaking task of eradication of terrorism will not be efficacious until there are people who facilitate the terrorists in any way.
Pastor Samuel urged the United Nations to chalk out a solid strategy in order to wipe out the scourge of terrorism from the face of the world. He said that the it is about time, when the international community should join hands and against ISIS and other outfits which spread terror in the world and murder people.
http://www.christiansinpakistan.com/threat-of-isis-terrorism-looms-larger-than-nuclear-menace-says-a-pakistani-church-leader/
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