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.
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…)