Pakistani Christian man in stable condition after mob attack; police arrest 26 of 44 suspects
A Christian in Sargodha, Pakistan, who was critically wounded in a mob attack on Saturday due to false allegations of blasphemy, is in stable condition.

A Christian in Sargodha, Pakistan, who was critically wounded in a mob attack on Saturday due to false allegations of blasphemy, is in stable condition.
An ad for sanitation workers targeting Christians in Pakistan has prompted objections that it signals only Christians should work such low-paying jobs.
Saima Bibi was serving tea to guests at her quarters in Punjab Province, Pakistan when her Muslim employer dragged her outside and pushed her towards an electric chaff cutter, tearing off her ear and cutting most of her scalp, her husband said.
Following a rights group report that 1,336 people were killed in Plateau state, Nigeria between December and February, residents reported 18 Christians killed since mid-April.
Gunmen in an area of Nigeria where Fulani herdsmen are active attacked a Catholic school on the evening of May 7, wounding a security guard in an apparent kidnapping attempt.
A video of a pastor and his wife kidnapped in March 2023 appeared on May 5 in which he pleaded for help from the government of Nigeria and Christian leaders.
Police in Pakistan are refusing to arrest Muslims who attacked a Catholic family and seized their farmland, and officers also damaged property, sources said.
Fulani herdsmen attacked residents of a village in central Nigeria’s Plateau state as they slept at 2 a.m. on April 19, killing 12 Christians, sources said.
A Christian pastor was killed last week as he traveled to minister to church members in northern Kaduna state, sources said.
A Nigerian local government official said that a Christian in Otukpo County’s Entepka village was killed by herdsmen last Saturday, after they killed two others two days earlier on April 18 in the Entepka District’s Adoka-Icho community.