Worsening Persecution of Christians in Nicaragua: A Call for Prayer and Action The actions of Sandinista Dictator Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua, and his wife Rosario Murillo, Vice President, keep Nicaragua in the limelight among countries which violently persecute Christians.The sentencing on February 9 of Bishop Rolando Alvarez of Matagalpa is but the latest in...
The Strange Case of Anwar Kenneth,Death Row Prisoner Convicted of Blasphemy Lahore Pakistan: The case of Anwar Kenneth, a death row prisoner now 89 years of age, accused of blasphemy, will be decided by the Supreme Court of Pakistan on March 1, 2023. After the recusal of five state lawyers, on January 24, 2023, the...
(To protect the victim, real names and locations are not used) In Pakistan, religious minorities, especially Christian females, are targeted because offenders know they can get away with their crimes. Such sad incidents are not unusual. According to independent estimates, an average of 1,000 Christian and Hindu underage girls are abducted each year in the...
Statistics and RecommendationsVictims of kidnapping, forced conversions and marriages were further traumatized last month when the Sindh High Court ordered another teenage Catholic child bride Arzoo Raja of Karachi to remain in a state-run shelter home until she reaches the age of 18.Raja was allegedly abducted in October 2019, converted to Islam, and married off...
Another case of a minor Christian girl held in a Shelter House Peshawar Pakistan, June 17, 2022. Kainat is a teenager who was sent by her mother to the local market to buy some sugar. While on her way she was kidnapped by Maqsood. She was raped and abused for 6 days. On the 7th...
Rajesh Bhatti Muslim Neighbour Opens Gun Fire over House Extension of Christian Neighbours May 2022, Wah Cantt city, Pakistan. A Christian family’s son, Rajesh Bhatti and cousin, Niqash Bhatti were building an extension on the top floor of their house when their neighbour Mohammad Shahid Iqbal and his brother Mohammad Humayun Iqbal tried to stop...
Peshawar, Pakistan. April 18, 2022 A local pastor called me (Nadeem Bhatti) two days ago to share about an Afghan refugee family who had crossed the border, at 10 am local time. In a conference call with the Afghan refugee “Adam” (name changed for security purposes) he informed me that it took them 45 minutes...
Target Killing, Slain for Christ – Pastor William Siraj Peshawar PakistanOn 30 January, 2022 unidentified motorcyclists shot and killed a pastor in Peshawar, the capital of the Province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), after Sunday Church Service. The late Pastor was accompanied with companions, one of whom was injured in the shooting. Pastor William Siraj (75),...
Islamabad, Pakistan February 3, 2022.This was the day we, Nadeem Bhatti & Nawab Bibi his wife, visited Zafar in jail. He shared with us that around 9am that day, a Muslim prisoner named Anwar began to shout and blame him for cursing Muslims.The policeman on duty intervened and inquired from the other prisoners. The other...
