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 […]
In the dusty lanes of Sadiqabad, a silent wound has reopened—a wound etched deep into the soul of Pakistan’s Christian sanitation workers. On a sweltering August afternoon, that wound bled again. A Christian man, barely surviving on his daily labor, was struck with a brick to the head, not for wrongdoing, […]
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 […]