Islamic extremists in northeastern Nigeria released a video early last week threatening to kill a kidnapped Christian pastor if they did not receive a large ransom payment, according to local reports.
Not a day passed when Allah Rakhi Bibi would not cry for her husband Nazeer Masih Gill, beaten to death at 74 by a Muslim mob on a false blasphemy accusation a month ago.
Due to a sloppy police investigation and pressure from an Islamist extremist party, a judge last week granted bail to at least 52 Muslims accused of killing a Christian man over a false blasphemy accusation, sources said.
A Catholic has been jailed under blasphemy charges since April 27 in Lahore, Pakistan for inadvertently stepping out of his rickshaw onto some papers said to be pages of the Quran, sources said.
Five Christian sanitation workers in Pakistan have died since Tuesday from inhaling toxic gases, highlighting how they are forced to work without proper safety equipment, sources said.
A Muslim factory owner in Pakistan on Thursday tortured to death an 18-year-old Catholic worker for leaving the job against his wishes, family members said.
Suspected Fulani herdsmen killed a pastor, his wife and three other Christians at around midnight on June 2 in Plateau state, central Nigeria, sources said.
Armed “Muslim bandits” abducted a Roman Catholic Church priest in the early hours of Sunday in Kaduna state, Nigeria, sources said.
A Christian woman in Pakistan remains in jail on baseless charges of blasphemy after a judge rejected her bail application on Monday, sources said.
With suspects in a homicide case pressuring the victim’s relatives to make false statements, police in Pakistan are declining to arrest them in the case of a Catholic tortured to death by his Muslim employers, sources said.
