“Between July 2022 and June 2023, religious freedom and beliefs in Pakistan experienced significant deterioration, marked by an increasing involvement of state mechanisms. This encroachment manifested through the enactment of new legislation, the failure to implement existing laws and judicial mandates, and direct or indirect state actions or omissions. Additionally, there […]
Members of the Christian community suspect that a Muslim individual, who previously declared his intention to prevent them from observing Easter, orchestrated a fire believed to have been deliberately set at their place of worship on Saturday (March 30) in Rawalpindi District, Pakistan. Reverend Adeem Alphonse of the United Presbyterian Junior […]
On March 13, 2024, in Basti Khaliq Pura, Multan, a distressing incident was reported involving 13-year-old Roshani Shakeel, a member of the Christian community. She was allegedly kidnapped, subjected to forced conversion to Islam, and subsequently married to her abductor, Muazzam Mazher. Nazia Shakeel, the victim’s mother, recounted the sequence of […]