Four days after mobs attacked Christian neighborhoods in Jaranwala tehsil of Faisalabad district, burning churches and ransacking homes and businesses, a similar outrage over blasphemy allegations was narrowly averted in Sahiwal on Sunday, sources said. Bishop Abraham Daniel of the Sahiwal Baptist church said that tensions escalated in 186/9-L village when […]
On Wednesday, August 16, a mob stormed and vandalized over 20 churches, dozens of homes of Christian families, and even a cemetery in Faisalabad’s Jaranwala tehsil. The violence erupted after some locals alleged that several desecrated pages of the Quran had been found near a house at Cinema Chowk in Jaranwala, […]
More than 20 church buildings have been attacked and hundreds of Christian homes destroyed after extremists rioted in Pakistan. Christians fled en masse from the Punjab town of Jaranwala, near Faisalabad, as fanatics began throwing stones and rocks and setting buildings on fire. The incident followed a blasphemy allegation against a […]