The Islamabad High Court has blasted the government for allowing decades of deadly neglect in sewer work—an industry where Christians make up more than 80% of the workforce but also nearly 100% of the deaths. Since 1988, over 70 sewer workers have died inside toxic manholes. That’s an average of 2 […]
Five Christian sanitation workers in Pakistan have died since Tuesday, June 11, from inhaling toxic gases, highlighting the severe lack of proper safety equipment for such labor, sources report. Irfan Masih, Ratan Masih, and Babar Masih succumbed to the poisonous gases on Wednesday, June 12, while cleaning a sewer disposal well […]
On Saturday, May 25, a Christian sanitation worker in Lahore, Pakistan, was assaulted and left chained in blistering heat for hours by a group of Muslims, according to sources. Hussain Masih, father-in-law of the 35-year-old worker Yasir Masih, discovered him in the Gujjarpura area of Lahore, chained to a chair on […]