A crowd of about 3000 Muslims has attacked and burned about 100 homes of Christians in Lahore, Pakistan, for a case of alleged blasphemy. The crowd also threw stones and injured several police officers who rushed to the scene to stop the violence. Between 120 and 140 Christian men, women, children were admitted to hospital. Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Blasphemy’
Blasphemy charge against girl dropped in Pakistan
Friday, November 23rd, 2012
A court in Pakistan has dropped a controversial blasphemy charge against a Christian girl accused of burning pages from the Koran, but many others are suffering under the same draconian blasphemy law. Rimsha Masih, who is 14 but considered to have a lower mental age, was charged after being accused by a neighbour, a Muslim Read more
Chapel Bar & Bistro religious ad, blasphemy
Friday, November 2nd, 2012
With a name like Chapel Bar & Bistro, one can assume its advertisements would take on a religious motif. What some may interpret as clever allusion, others may interpret as blasphemy. Chapel Bar & Bistro, located in Ponsonby, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, is celebrating its seventh anniversary. In honor of “seven years of Read more
Church tries to dampen down protests over Asia Bibi
Friday, August 3rd, 2012
As international pressure grows for the release of Asia Bibi — a Christian mother of five who faces a death sentence in Pakistan for alleged blasphemy — local Church officials are trying to dampen down protests lest they provoke Islamic extremists. “Instead of making noises, we would prefer to keep quiet and wait for the Read more
Christian woman in Pakistan prison on blasphemy charges in poor health
Friday, December 23rd, 2011Asia Bibi, in a Pakistan prison, has been seen in poor health. Bibi is grateful for prayers and calls for help and support, that she may soon return to embrace her husband and daughters. Despite the suffering, Asia has forgiven her captors and wonders how many more Christian victims will fall beneath the specter of Read more
Catholics protest against blasphemous plays in Paris
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011One of Paris’s most prestigious theatres was being protected by riot police and guard-dog patrols on Thursday after it became the latest target in a wave of Catholic protests across France against so-called blasphemous plays.
The head of the Theatre du Rond-Point on the Champs-Elysees complained of death threats in the runup to Thursday’s premiere of the play Golgota Picnic by the Madrid-based, Argentinian writer Rodrigo Garcia. Two men reported to have links to fundamentalist Catholic groups were arrested at the weekend while attempting to disable the theatre’s security system.
Several Catholic groups have called for peaceful demonstrations, prayer-vigils and the laying down of white flowers outside the building every night the play is shown, while the Archbishop of Paris will lead protest prayers against the play at Notre Dame Cathedral.
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Friday, November 18th, 2011The Protestant Bishop and Pastor were forced to flee abroad, because they were victims of false accusations of blasphemy and threatened with death by Islamic radicals, as well as leaders of an organization funded by the Pakistani government.
The LEAD, reports the President to Fides, “has organized the expatriation of the two leaders, in danger of life, and today is providing to ensure a safe haven for their families”.
“It is a very sad story and a symbol of the persecution that Christians suffer in the name of the blasphemy law”, explains Gill to Fides, as “the Bishop is a well-known personality and very involved in interfaith dialogue and in peace at national and provincial level in Punjab”.
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