Compass Direct is reporting another incident that took place in Pakistan, the same place where Asia Bibi is currently in prison for her faith, that another woman has been charged with blasphemy for refusing to deny Christ and turn to Islam.
Relatives who became Muslims try to force her to renounce Christian faith.FORT ABBAS, Pakistan, March 12 (CDN) — A young mother has been falsely accused of “blaspheming” Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, because she rebuffed attempts by relatives who had converted to Islam to force her to renounce her Christian faith, family members said.
Police in Khichiwala, Bahawalnagar district, in Punjab Province, charged 26-year-old Shamim Bibi, mother of a 5-month-old girl and resident of the village Chak No. 170/7R Colony, in the Fort Abbas area, under Section 295-C of Pakistan’s “blasphemy” statutes after neighbors accused her of uttering remarks against Muhammad. She was arrested on Feb. 28.
Speaking ill of Muhammad in Pakistan is punishable by life imprisonment or death under Pakistan’s internationally condemned blasphemy laws.The young woman’s brother, Ilyas Masih, and her brother-in-law, Shahbaz Masih, told Compass that she had been wrongly accused because she had resisted pressure to convert to Islam four days before her arrest.
“Nazeeran, sister of Shamim’s husband Bashir Masih, and her nephew Nadeem and niece Bella accepted Islam on Feb. 24 and called on her to do the same,” Masih said. “She refused, telling them that she was satisfied with Christianity and did not want to convert.”
He said the newly-converted Muslims persisted in trying to force her to convert, but she resisted.
Please take some time to pray for Shahbaz Masih and her family. Pray for her protection, for her to stand firm in her faith - as she already has - and for those in her family who are tempting her to renounce Christ, will come to faith in the same Jesus she believes in.