Our good friends at Compass Direct have another story today coming out of Pakistan. Sadly, it appears that some Christians are going into hiding because of threats from the Sunni Muslims. Again, I ask you to keep our brothers and sisters in prayer who are in Pakistan. Not only are they all dealing with the floods and the devastation for that, but they are under continual persecution. Click here for the full story at Compass Direct.
Pretexts for filing charges of blaspheming Muhammad, Quran are easy to find.
BAHAWALNAGAR, Pakistan, August 24 (CDN) — Threats of
“blasphemy” charges in two provinces in Pakistan have sent a Christian
cleaning worker and a young inter-faith couple into hiding.
In separate cases typical of how Pakistan’s blasphemy laws enable the predominantly Sunni Muslim society to terrorize lower-class Christians, the cleaning worker in Bahawalnagar district, Punjab Province was forced to leave his job and flee with his family, and the married couple in Karachi, Sindh Province are running from threats from the Muslim bride’s parents.