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« on: April 09, 2014, 04:06:09 AM »
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    • A Pakistani Christian couple has been sentenced to death on blasphemy charges, according to multiple media reports.

    Emmanuel and Shagufta Shafqat Kausar of Gojra were found guilty of sending text messages to an imam in which they insulted Islam and Muhammad. The Fides news agency reported that “the two, being illiterate, were not able to send any messages in English.”

    The couple’s conviction follows the March death sentence of another Pakistani Christian, Sawan Masih, on blasphemy charges.

    “Cases like these are common and cause great suffering,” said Father Aloysius Roy, Superior of the Pakistani province of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. “Christians keep a low profile, because life is full of difficulties and dangers, and for us the first commandment is to survive. Christians are afraid, and they move with extreme caution.”

    Paul Bhatti, a prominent Pakistani lay Catholic, told AsiaNews that the couple will appeal the ruling, and Bishop Rufin Anthony of Islamabad-Rawalpindi has declared a day of prayer and fasting for “all those on death row.”


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    « Reply #1 on: April 10, 2014, 03:07:55 AM »
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    • A coalition of organizations, including the Pakistani bishops' justice and peace commission, has found that 700 Christian girls and women, and 300 Hindu girls and women, are kidnapped each year, are forced to convert to Islam, and are forced to enter into marriages, according to the Fides news service.

    “Under the custody of the kidnapper, she may suffer sɛҳuąƖ violence, forced prostitution, domestic abuse and beatings, if not human trafficking,” according to the organizations' report.

    “It is really very alarming and disturbing for Christians and Hindus, who feel very insecure and vulnerable, said Father James Channan, a Dominican who ministers in Lahore. “We have dealt directly with several cases of forced marriages: the young people belonging to poor social class and often rich Muslim landowners take advantage of such abuse. In Pakistan, it seems to me that Christians and Hindus suffer social, religious and political discrimination, which is getting worse.”

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