Two Christians Critically Wounded at Wedding in Pakistan

January 18, 2010
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The Voice of the Martyrs

This is from our friends at Compass Direct.   Full story here.

Still in intensive care, they were shot for refusing order to convert to Islam.

TOBA TEK SINGH, Pakistan, January 14 (CDN) — Two Pakistani Christians who were shot at a wedding on Dec. 26 for refusing to convert to Islam are still receiving treatment at a hospital intensive care unit, but doctors are hopeful that they will recover.

In low, barely audible voices, Imran Masih, 21, and Khushi Masih, 24, told Compass that two Muslims armed with AK-47s in Punjab Province’s Chak (village) 297-JB, in Toba Tek Singh district, shot them in their chests after they refused orders to recite the Islamic creed signifying conversion.

Soon after they arrived at the wedding, a group of Muslim youths armed with AK-47 assault rifles surrounded them and began shooting into the air, as is customary at village weddings. They were not alarmed, they said, assuming the young Muslim men were simply celebrating joyfully. 

“One of the green-turban-wearing Muslims peremptorily told us to recite the Islamic holy Kalima[profession of faith] or face direct bullets and the lethal consequences,” said Khushi Masih. 

Both Christians said that they joyfully refused, and instead they began reciting Psalm 91.