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Christian Family Seeks Justice after R**e of 15-Year-Old Girl in PakistanPolice decline to arrest Muslim suspects, sourc...
30/07/2024

Christian Family Seeks Justice after R**e of 15-Year-Old Girl in Pakistan
Police decline to arrest Muslim suspects, sources say.

By Christian Daily International-Morning Star News
LAHORE, Pakistan, July 30, 2024 (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News) – Police in Pakistan have refused to arrest two Muslims who r***d a 15-year-old Christian girl, and the suspects have threatened to harm her family members if they do not withdraw the case, relatives and attorneys said.

Sonia Mehboob said her daughter was r***d by Fahad Nasir and Muhammad Amjad on the night of July 1 in Lahore. Police reluctant to file a case delayed registering a First Information Report (FIR) for a day, she said.

“We made several visits to the police station, but each time we were treated harshly by the police,” Mehboob told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News. “When the police finally registered our FIR, no attempt was made to arrest the accused, enabling them to obtain interim bails from the court.”

Her daughter, whose name is withheld as an alleged r**e victim, had left the house around 10 p.m. to go to a nearby grocery shop. As she returned, the two suspects stopped her on the street and forced her to drink some water laced with drugs, Mehboob said.

“She fell unconscious after drinking the drug-laced water, after which the accused took her to a house and r***d her,” she said.

Mehboob, a Catholic domestic worker, said that when her daughter did not return, she and her husband set out to search for her.

“While we were looking for her, we saw Fahad standing in the street,” she said. “Upon asking him about our daughter, he said that he had seen her going towards a nearby park.”

They rushed to the park and, not finding her there, returned to their street.

“Fahad wasn’t there,” Mehboob said. “After some time, we saw Amjad coming out of a house followed by [my daughter], who was struggling to walk.”

Amjad ran away upon seeing them, she said, adding that her daughter was drugged and could barely talk.

“Her clothes were drenched in blood. We immediately called the police, who took her to the hospital for treatment and medical examination,” Mehboob said. “The medical examination showed that she has been r***d. There were also torture and bite marks on her body.”

Some officers went to the crime scene and seized evidence. They also recovered illegal weapons from the house, she said.

Mehboob filed an application for registration of a case against Nasir and Amjad, but area police were reluctant to register the FIR that day, she said. She pleaded with the investigation officer several times to conduct DNA tests of the victim and the two suspects, but he refused, she said.

“The accused are now threatening us to withdraw the case, warning us of dire consequences,” Mehboob said.

On July 19 the suspects filed a false case of assault against her 16-year-old son Zikaria, accusing him of attacking Nasir even though the teenager can barely walk due to a leg injury, she said.

“They also involved Sadiq Masih, a Christian counsellor of the area, in the case because he’s helping us in our pursuit for justice,” Mehboob said.

Her daughter said that when she regained consciousness, she was confused to find herself in a room.

“My mind was numb and vision was blurry when I gained consciousness,” she told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News. “At first, I couldn’t figure out what had happened to me, but then I started to feel the pain. It was awful. There were some bite injuries on my body which also hurt a lot.”

There was no one else in the house when she regained consciousness, and after some time Amjad unlocked the main gate, she said.

“I tried to run, but he beat me up, biting me on the cheek when I was struggling to free myself,” she said. “I started screaming for help, after which he let go of me and left the house. I followed him outside, and while I was trying to make out where I was, my parents saw me and took me in their arms.”

She said the assault has left her with severe mental and physical trauma.

“I’m still unable to sleep at night. The bitter memory of that night continues to haunt me to this day,” she said as tears welled up her eyes.

Shahid Altaf, a local Muslim of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), said he was supporting the Christian family “because it was the right thing to do.”

“Though I’m a Muslim, I’m seeking justice for her because she is the victim of a barbaric crime,” Altaf told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News. “The accused are notorious criminals and have a history of sexually assaulting minor children. They also act as informers for the police, which is why no action is being taken against them.”

With Altaf’s help, the family on Saturday (July 27) engaged Christian attorney Zunaira Yousaf to pursue the case. She said she would contest the bails of the suspects at court hearing scheduled for Tuesday (July 30).

“I’ve also filed an application with the senior superintendent of police investigation branch to change the investigating officer of the case,” Yousaf told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News. “The police are clearly siding with the accused; nearly a month has passed, yet the police have not conducted DNA tests of the accused and the victim. Due to this, the accused have thrice managed to get their pre-arrest bails extended from the court.”

The case shows how vulnerable Christians face challenges in obtaining justice in Pakistan, she said.

“In her police statement, [the victim] has identified Fahad as the person who intoxicated her,” Yousaf said. “Moreover, the house where she was r***d is under Fahad’s rental. These facts warrant Fahad’s immediate arrest, but the investigation officer has deliberately not opposed his pre-arrest bail.”

Pakistan ranked seventh on Open Doors’ 2024 World Watch List of the most difficult places to be a Christian, as it was the previous year.

Photo: Sonia Mehboob in Lahore, Pakistan. (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News)

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Video of Halted Christian Worship in March Surfaces in IndonesiaOfficials lament appearance of incident they say is reso...
29/07/2024

Video of Halted Christian Worship in March Surfaces in Indonesia
Officials lament appearance of incident they say is resolved.

By Our Indonesia Correspondent
SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – Officials in Indonesia said they regretted the surfacing of a video showing Muslims halting worship of a church service in March, as authorities have since provided a temporary site for the congregation’s services.

Soma Atmaja of the Tangerang Regency government said on the agency’s website that his administration had provided a temporary place for the Thessalonica Church congregation in Banten Province to worship, as their prior site lacked a building permit. The church previously held services illegally in a rented house in Puri, Kampung Melayu Timur Housing, Teluk Naga Subdistrict, Tangerang Regency, outside Jakarta, Soma said.

A video that first appeared on July 21 shows a mob of mostly men dressed in typical Indonesian Muslim clothing storming the site and stopping the church worship, saying it was in a majority-Muslim area, according to local media. The intruders also mocked the congregation for worshipping in a rented house, according to forumkeadilan.com.

“You’re holding worship and holding it in a [settlement] where the majority of the population is Muslim – here everyone is Muslim!” says one resident to loud cheers of support while another shouts the jihadist slogan, “Allahu Akbar, [God is greater],” according to forumkeadilan.com.

After a church member explains their reasons for worshiping at the home, the crowd becomes louder and retorts that they should only worship at a church building. The church representative says the lease at their prior venue in the Puri Naga Indah Complex had expired, as the mob laughs and mocks them.

Teluk Naga Police Chief Wahyu Hidayat said he was confused why video of the altercation had surfaced only last week.

“This was an old incident, three months ago,” Wahyu told national news channel Medcom, owned by Metro Television.

Wahyu said the conflict had been peacefully resolved.

Indonesia’s Joint Ministerial Decree of 2006 requires a permit only for worship venues used on a permanent basis, “excluding family places of worship,” rights activists say.

“According to The Joint Decree of the Two Ministers, Chapter 1, Article 3, what needs a permit is the construction of a church,” rights activist Permadi Arya, known as Abu Janda, wrote in 2023. “Holding worship at home, shop-houses and cafes needs no permission.”

Such homes, cafés and shop-houses can be equated with Muslim traditional prayer-rooms (musholla), and since Muslims need no permission for those, Christians should receive equal treatment, he said.

Islamic extremists have been largely responsible for using lack of building permits as a pretext for closing or attacking churches since the passage of Indonesia’s Joint Ministerial Decree of 2006, which made requirements for obtaining such permits nearly impossible for most new churches.

Even when small, new churches were able to meet the requirement of obtaining 90 signatures of approval from congregation members and 60 from area households of different religions, they have often met with delays or lack of response from officials.

Indonesia ranked 42nd on Christian support organization Open Doors’ 2024 World Watch List of the 50 countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian. Indonesian society has adopted a more conservative Islamic character, and churches involved in evangelistic outreach are at risk of being targeted by Islamic extremist groups, according to the WWL report.

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Photo: Location of Banten Province, Indonesia. (TUBS, Creative Commons)
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Unknown Assailants Shoot Pastor Dead in LaosProvincial leader of Lao Evangelical Church attacked at home.By Our Asia Cor...
28/07/2024

Unknown Assailants Shoot Pastor Dead in Laos
Provincial leader of Lao Evangelical Church attacked at home.

By Our Asia Correspondent
HONG KONG, July 28, 2024 (Morning Star News) – Pastor Thongkham Philavanh was feeding his chickens and ducks behind his house in Vanghay village, northwestern Laos, on Monday (July 22) when two men on motorcycles, faces covered, arrived.

After a brief exchange, one of the gunmen fired seven shots into his head and body.

The assailant’s gun was fitted with a silencer. They escaped as Pastor Thongkham was rushed to a provincial hospital, where he died on arrival, leaving behind a wife and two teenagers. Pastor Thongkham was 40.

Police are investigating the killing in Xai District, Oudomxay Province, which comes on the heels of the torture and killing of Pastor Seetoud of Don Keo village in central Laos’ Khammouane Province in October 2022. Village officials had warned him to stop all Christian gatherings and activities. The case is still unresolved, and the killers are still at large.

Pastor Thongkham was tribal Khmu leader and provincial head of the Lao Evangelical Church (LEC). He had been actively sharing the gospel, showing the Jesus Film and hosting trainings for pastors.

A week before he was killed, LEC leaders had gathered to dedicate the expansion of the church building as the church had grown. Several prominent LEC leaders attended his funeral on Saturday (July 27).

According to local Christians, Pastor Thongkham was closely monitored by the authorities, and had been warned several times to stop his “Christian activities.”

Christians across Laos have posted messages of shock and grief on social media.

“His profound wisdom, unwavering faith and boundless compassion touched the lives of many,” read one Facebook post.

Despite a national law guaranteeing freedom of religion, persecution in Laos has been steadily increasing in the country. Christians continue to be imprisoned in Laos, most of them held for a short period and then released.

Local officials have been driving Protestant Christians from their villages, tearing down and burning their homes and rice silos, leaving families with no place to go. Even though the government has been informed about these incidents, it has allowed this to continue without any charges filed.

The level of fear among Christians has increased since the killing of Pastor Thongkham. Most leaders are taking extra precautions when they travel and stay in constant contact with peers.

A prominent Christian leader from the Baw tribe in Khammouanne Province, central Laos, narrowly escaped death at the hands of government agents. According to local sources, Brother O was warned by a family friend that authorities were planning to kidnap and possibly kill him.

Christians said Brother O and his wife escaped when they saw a group of men waiting in front of their home and fled.

Despite the increased persecution, the church in Laos is rapidly growing every year, with hundreds of Khmu coming to the Lord. Daily live Christian broadcasts on the Khmu page continue to attract thousands; in one three-day period, 10,000 people were watching.

Discipleship trainings are being held across the country by local teams, which has proven very effective.

Laos was ranked 21st on Open Doors’ 2024 World Watch List of the countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian.

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Photo: Pastor Thongkham Philavanh is survived by his wife and two children. (Facebook)
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Attack in India Ends Church’s In-Person Worship ServicesMembers beaten and shunned; one fired from job.By Our Southern I...
26/07/2024

Attack in India Ends Church’s In-Person Worship Services
Members beaten and shunned; one fired from job.

By Our Southern India Correspondent
HYDERABAD, India, July 26, 2024 (Morning Star News) – Members of a house church in northern India can no longer meet for worship after a mob of about 150 Hindu extremists attacked them on July 14, sources said.

In the Nawada area of Uttarakhand state’s Dehradun District, 15 church members were immersed in worship when Pastor Rajesh Bhomi’s mother-in-law notified them that she had seen the mob a few meters away on her way to the Sunday service.

“My mother-in-law suspected that it could be a mob of RSS [Hindu extremist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh] activists, and alerted us that they must have gathered to attack us,” Pastor Bhomi, 37, told Morning Star News.

The church was worshipping on the top floor of the house he and his wife, Deeksha Pal, own. His mother-in-law suggested they lock the main entrance gate and conduct the services quietly, without music or microphone, he said.

“We locked the gate and stayed indoors, not making any noise,” Pastor Bhomi said. “Soon we found the mob with women leading in the front banging on the gate trying to break open the lock.”

When the pastor asked what they were doing, they replied, “Open the gate, let’s talk! Let’s talk!’ he said. They replied that if there was anything to talk about, only two or three of them needed to enter.

“‘Why did you come as a mob of over 100?’ we questioned them, but they kept repeating that we must open the lock, and they would only talk to us,” he told Morning Star News. “As they banged and pushed the gate, in that struggle the lock was let loose by us, and at once the mob of around 150 rushed inside the premises like flood waters. They went all around the house vandalizing every object in their sight, and some of them were carrying lathis. They beat wherever on the body badly.”

His wife, father-in-law, brother-in-law, and two other female members of the congregation were severely injured, he said.

“They received lathi blows in the stomach, neck and hands,” Pastor Bhomi said. “As they continued beating us, some from among the mob snatched away our mobile phones, laptop and damaged the music instrument.”

The beating continued until police arrived and dispersed the mob, he said. After taking their statements, officers told them to come to the police station at 7 p.m. to receive a copy of the First Information Report.

Officers there kept them waiting for more than an hour, though they were aware that the pastor’s 1-year-old and 7-year-old children had not eaten all day and had been crying after witnessing the violence, he said.

Police delayed filing cases against the assailants, the pastor said.

“At first, the police said since the assailants are not known to us, cases would be registered against them as unknown,” Pastor Bhomi said. “But one of the members of our church who was formerly an RSS activist came forward to name 11 of the assailants who are quite famously known in the city as RSS leaders.”

Police in Nehru colony named assailants Devendra Dobal, Bijendra Thapa, Sudheer Thapa, Sanjeev Pal, Sudheer Pal, Dheerendra Dobal, Arman Dobal, Aryaman Dobal, Anil Hindu, Bhupesh Joshi and Bijendra in the FIR. The case was registered under laws against causing grievous hurt, rioting, wounding feelings and insulting a religion, committing mischief, making a false document or false electronic record, publishing or circulating false information through electronic means, and “acts caused by inducing person to believe he will be rendered an object of the divine displeasure under the new criminal law Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023,” the pastor said.

Though they named the suspects, officers did not include the statements church members had given of the attack, he said.

“It seemed as if the police were also under pressure since the averments we made in the actual complaint went missing,” Pastor Bhomi said. “The police had written their own version in a subtle tone so that stringent sections of law are not attracted.”

The Christians had no need of gathering evidence since the mob had recorded video and posted it on social media platforms, he said.

“The faces of the assailants are so clearly seen in the video, yet police have not taken any action against them so far,” Pastor Bhomi said. “They only tell us that the investigation is underway.”

A church member who helped register the case by identifying the assailants lost a job at a factory that he had held for 16 years, as the owner is an ardent RSS supporter, he said. Owners of neighborhood shops now refuse to sell groceries and other essentials to church members, he added.

“We are enduring immense hatred from all corners; many are writing dirty comments about the videos that went viral,” Pastor Bhomi said. “They are writing in filthy language about my wife. It has been very disturbing mentally, but I thank God that she is spiritually stronger.”

The attack was the first one of such severity that he has experienced in 20 years of ministry, he said.

“Yet I believe God choses only few for this great mission of facing persecution. I am thankful to the Lord that he has chosen me,” he said. “Through this pain and trials too, I want to serve the Lord. I want to serve the Lord until my last breath.”

He harbors no anger or hatred in his heart against those who attacked them, he said.

“They came with hatred in their hearts to attack us; tomorrow, if by God’s grace they knock on our gates again, seeking the Lord, I would gladly open the gates of my house for them,” the pastor said.

In a state of shock and panic since the attack, church members have begun participating in the church’s worship services online.

“We have been worshipping only virtually for the time being,” Pastor Bhomi said. “There is no other church for at least 20 kilometers [12 miles] in this area. The gospel is yet to be preached in many areas of this small state.”

India ranked 11th on Christian support organization Open Doors’ 2024 World Watch List of the countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian. The coun-try was 31st in 2013, but its position worsened after Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power.

The hostile tone of the National Democratic Alliance government, led by the Hin-du nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), against non-Hindus, has embold-ened Hindu extremists in several parts of the country to attack Christians since Modi took power in May 2014, religious rights advocates say.

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Photo: Attack on house church members in Nawada, Dehradun District, Utta-rakhand state, India on July 14, 2024. (Morning Star News screenshot from YouTube)
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Pakistan Reverses Ban on Passports for Asylum SeekersCollective sigh of relief from Christians fleeing persecution.By Ch...
25/07/2024

Pakistan Reverses Ban on Passports for Asylum Seekers
Collective sigh of relief from Christians fleeing persecution.

By Christian Daily International-Morning Star News
LAHORE, Pakistan, July 25, 2024 (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News) – Pakistani Christians who have fled the country due to persecution were relieved to hear the government has reversed its decision to stop issuing or renewing passports to those seeking asylum abroad.

The government announced the decision this week following Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi’s June 5 statement that the ministry had directed Pakistani diplomatic missions abroad to stop issuing or renewing passports to citizens who have obtained or are seeking asylum, saying it was “in the best national interest.”

The decision to stop issuing passports had caused concern among those fleeing religious and political persecution, with many citizens claiming violation of their basic human rights by denying birth-right to the nationality of their home country.

Pakistan Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar on Monday (July 22) announced that the government had decided to resume issuing passports to asylum-seeking Pakistani citizens who live abroad but whose passports were either canceled or had expired. He said that the passports would be issued within 60 days of application.

Ejaz Alam Augustine, a Christian lawmaker in the Punjab Provincial Assembly, said the government’s June 5 decision had caused immense concern among Christian asylum seekers from Pakistan.

“It’s a good thing that the government has reversed its decision,” Augustine told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News. “It should now focus on ensuring protection and security of the minority communities by addressing the genuine concerns of the people regarding the abuse of the blasphemy laws, which is a major cause of fear and forces people to think about leaving Pakistan.”

Samson Salamat, chairman of the Rawadari Tehreek (Movement for Equality), said that the ban on passports for asylum seekers violated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states that everyone has the right to seek and enjoy asylum from persecution in other countries.

“We are glad that the international community and human rights organizations raised this issue, compelling the Pakistani government to review this illogical decision,” Salamat said.

A Pakistani Christian asylum seeker in the United States said Pakistan’s June 5 decision had caused alarm among those seeking asylum.

“A majority of Christian asylum seekers, including myself, escaped from Pakistan because our lives were threatened by extremist Muslims,” he told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News on condition of anonymity. “My wife and children are still in hiding in Pakistan waiting to be reunited with me after I obtain the refugee status. I was very fearful for their security when reports surfaced that the government would summon the record of all those seeking asylum to cancel their passports, but I’m much relieved now that the ban has been reversed.”

Bishop Azad Marshall, president of the Church of Pakistan, said the policy to ban passports was wrong from the outset.

“The church was opposed to the decision, and we had conveyed our concerns in this regard to the government quarters,” said Marshall, who is also head of the National Council of Churches in Pakistan. “Pakistanis, regardless of their faith affiliations, flee to other countries when they feel insecure or are persecuted. The government’s move would have made such people homeless and stateless.”

Marshall said hundreds of persecuted Christian families from Pakistan have been stranded in Thailand, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and other countries for years hoping to be relocated as refugees to the West.

“The resettlement process for such families or individuals is very slow, and many Christians have returned to Pakistan after failing to make it through,” he said. “If the government had decided to stick to its policy, it would have landed such Christians in a very difficult situation in those countries.”

According to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees office in Sri Lanka, the country hosts 311 Pakistani refugees and 180 asylum seekers, including 30 Christians. About 400 Christian families are in Thailand seeking asylum, with a similar number in Malaysia, according to various sources.

For the fifth consecutive year, the Pakistani passport has been ranked the fourth worst, with visa-free access to only 34 out of 227 destinations, according to the latest Henley Passport Index, which ranks the world’s 199 passports.

International rights groups have routinely slammed Pakistan for failing to ensure religious freedom and protect minorities from attacks from Islamic hardliners.

Pakistan ranked seventh on Open Doors’ 2024 World Watch List of the most difficult places to be a Christian, as it was the previous year.

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Photo: Dawn News broadcast on reversal of ban on passports for Pakistanis fleeing the country. (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News screenshot)
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