Militant Islamists again on the march in Pakistan and Christians are marked for annihilation

International Christian Voice, Canada (ICV) with great pain and sadness informs you of the targeted killing of Pastor William Siraj by Islamic militants in Peshawar, Pakistan. The armed assailants attacked as the two clergymen left on a motorcycle from All Saints Church in the city after the church service; the accompanying pastor, Revd. Patrick Naeem was wounded in the shooting.

All Saint’s Church is the same Church where in 2013 two suicide bombers carried out an attack killing 127 innocent Christian worshippers and injuring another 170. The victims of that horrific attack included 37 innocent children.

The sword of Damocles hangs over the heads of Pakistan’s minority faith citizens every minute of the day that they survive in their own country.  The suffocation of religious minorities, physical violence, fear, and uncertain future in a growing intolerant Pakistan has made life for religious minority faiths a living hell.

Over and above the physical violence unleashed by the Islamists there is added fear of false blasphemy charges, denial of economic opportunities, segregated by the majority and shackled by State connivance to the bottom in menial sewer cleaning jobs.

International Christian Voice, Canada (ICV) strongly condemns the assassination of Pastor William Siraj and injured Revd. Patrick Naeem. We expect the law enforcement to apprehend the assailants, but, more importantly, we demand the State of Pakistan, Prime Minister Imran Khan, its political and religious leaders to address the core national issue of rampant intolerance festering in the society at large.

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Appeal to Save the life of Nurse Tabeeta Gill and her family

Tabeeta Nazir Gill is a forty-seven-year-old mother of two boys, 14 and 13 yrs. of age. Her husband is fifty
years old. They were born and raised Christians in Pakistan and are rooted
in their faith.
Tabeeta has been falsely charged with Blasphemy under section 295C of the
Pakistan Penal Code punishable by death.
Nurse Tabeeta miraculously managed to narrowly escape the clutches of her
persecutors in Pakistan and is presently in hiding out of the country, subject
to deportation upon the expiry of the temporary visitor visa which would
result in her lengthy incarceration and possible violent death at the hands of
the religious extremists.
Tabeeta is trained and experienced nurse of 20 years. She was employed at
Sobhraj Maternity Hospital Karachi, Pakistan, she served with a passion and
compassion for caring and comforting the sick. She is also a Gospel singer
and is well known in both the Christian and Muslim community.
Due to her dedication to her profession, compassion, and honesty she was
well liked by the patients and the hospital management. This caused some resentment and jealously of her
co-workers who habitually only served patients who paid them for their services even though this was illegal
and against hospital regulations. They ignored the poor patients whose families could not afford to pay these
staff a graft for their services. When Tabeeta tried to reason with them that as nurses they should treat all the
patients equally some of her colleagues at the hospital would become infuriated with her and threatened her
to mind her own business. Read Full Story…….

 

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Report on Killing of Christian Man in Faisalabad

Unreported by mainstream media the persecution of Christians continues unabated in Pakistan with no public outcry, no acknowledgement by any political leadership, no meaningful action by the police or civil administration of the country.

Life continues as normal, a Christians life seems meaningless to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

On June 17th, 2021, a young Christian boy named Shahzad Masih was brutally tortured and killed by influential local Muslims in a village # 437 near Samundri in District Faisalabad, Pakistan.

The boy was kidnapped, kept tied for three days, denied water, sexually abused and then inserted with fire extinguisher gas in his rectum and thrown in the field near his family home.(more…)

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