Muslims fired gunshots and threw fuel bombs at the homes of Christians in a village in Pakistan at 2 a.m. on Feb. 12 for supporting an opposing political party in last week’s elections, Morning Star News reported.
In a rare move in Pakistan, police discharged a 72-year-old Christian from a blasphemy case after the complainant admitted she had falsely accused him, Morning Star News reported.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday (Feb. 13) reprimanded the Punjab Province government over its progress report on anti-Christian attacks in Jaranwala, terming it “worthy of being thrown into the dustbin.”
Citing lax government response to Islamic extremist attacks on a Christian community last August, an advocacy group recently filed another plea for justice with the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
An Islamist cleric allegedly presided over the forced conversion of two Christians in Sialkot District, Pakistan after they were tortured into reciting the Islamic conversion creed, Morning Star News reported.
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Police intimidation and lax investigations into Islamist rioting that destroyed scores of Christian homes and businesses in Jaranwala, Pakistan in August has dampened hopes of justice for the victims, sources said.
Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists attacked villages in Plateau state, Nigeria at about 12:30 a.m. today (Jan. 24), killing at least 25 Christians, following the deaths of six others last week, Morning Star News reported.
The governor of Kaduna State, Nigeria, met with church leaders after the pace of terrorist killings since September increased in a Christian area, including 25 people slain in the first two weeks of January, sources said.
Fulani herdsmen and other attackers reportedly kidnapped a pastor and three other Christians on Saturday (Jan. 13) in central Nigeria, sources said.
