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Iran’s Escalating Persecution of Christians

Aug. 14Iran’s Other War: The Regime’s...

As the world’s attention remains fixed on the war with Iran, the ACLJ is working to ensure the regime’s persecution of Christians doesn’t get lost in the headlines. As part of that effort, we recently intervened at the U.N. to draw attention to the treatment of Iranian Christians. As we wrote previously , we recently sent a letter to the U.N.More

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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has once again become the site of unspeakable violence , with Christian communities being targeted by terrorists and militant forces. On February 15, over 70 Christians – primarily women, children, and the elderly – were added to the list of victims when they were abducted...More

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Another innocent Christian has been thrown behind bars and sentenced to execution by hanging under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws because of his faith in Jesus. We’re taking urgent legal action to overturn this injustice before it’s too late. Last year, we reported that an angry Muslim mob in Pakistan had burned down over 20 churches and 80 homes of Christians in Jaranwala after two Christian brothers were accused of desecrating the Quran. The only evidence presented to the police was a...

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A trial court in Pakistan sentenced a young Christian man to execution by hanging over a false allegation of blasphemy against him (a MINOR at the time of the alleged offense). Our Pakistani affiliate, the Organization for Legal Aid (OLA), is representing Shahzad Masih, the young Christian man, who was a 16-year-old minor when he was arrested and charged under the country’s infamous blasphemy law, section 295-C of the Pakistan Penal Code. Section 295-C states: Whoever by words, either...

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On June 8th, 2022, the Lahore High Court, Rawalpindi Bench, upheld the death sentence of two Christian brothers in a blasphemy case. Christian brothers, Amoon and Qaisar Ayub, were accused of posting blasphemous material on the Internet. Our international affiliate the European Centre for Law and Justice’s (ECLJ) office in Pakistan represents the younger of the two brothers, Amoon Ayub. As discussed here , in June 2011, a Muslim man informed the police that he was browsing the...

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Pakistan has been listed as one of the most pernicious persecutors of Christians in the world. Mob violence, burning alive, rape, false accusations of blasphemy, unjust death penalties, delayed justice, coerced conversions to Islam, and police torture are just a few of the pervasive forms of persecution and discrimination inflicted upon Christians in Pakistan. While the Pakistani authorities do not direct persecution, they are sometime unwilling or unable to stop a whole host of...

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In Pakistan, Muslim attackers stripped Parwasha, an eight-year-old Christian girl, and then beat her, and left her naked on the streets—all for a crime she didn't commit. This assault and public humiliation occurred because a Muslim family sought retribution against Parwasha's maternal uncle. Parwasha's uncle, Iftikhar Masih, was invited by his Muslim girlfriend, Samina, to her house late at night. Because interreligious marriages or romantic relationships are a taboo in Pakistan,

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On October 31, 2018 – nearly 8 years after she was first convicted of blasphemy – Pakistan’s Supreme Court overturned Christian Mom Asia Bibi’s death sentence and acquitted her of all charges. She is now free. On October 16, 2014, an appeals court in Lahore Pakistan has upheld the death sentence for a Christian woman, Asia Bibi, who was falsely convicted of "blasphemy" (speaking against the prophet Muhammad) in 2010. As the lone Christian household in her town, she was targeted for...

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We are representing a Christian family against a Pakistani corporation that launched a campaign of persecution against its Christian employees. The Christian brothers, Asher and Robin, former employees of corporation were forced to resign at gunpoint after new Muslim management took over. Asher started working for the company as a ticket collector in 1999. By 2010, he was an operations manager. New Muslim management, however, decided to remove all high-ranking Christian employees. In...

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Our Pakistan office successfully represented Pastor Karma Patras who was falsely accused of blasphemy after he gave a sermon at a memorial service preaching about the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ. A Muslim attending the service mistook Pastor Patras’ words and accused him of blasphemy against Islam. Pastor Patras was arrested on October 15, 2012 under section 295-A of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) that punishes “deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings...

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When Christians are persecuted, not even the dead are free from harm. In Pakistan, Muslims have desecrated Christian cemeteries, transformed them into farmland, and have allowed animals to graze over buried Christians. In at least one case, Muslim gangs have threatened to kill anyone who buries a family member in the local Christian cemetery. Our office in Pakistan is working with churches to secure their members' final earthly rest.

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Masih’s ordeal began on July 1, 2009, when he was cleaning his bookstore. After gathering useless papers and old books, he prepared to burn them, a common method of disposing of trash in the Third World. One of the books appeared to be an old textbook on the Arabic language. Fearing he might dispose it of improperly, Masih consulted his Muslim neighbor, Hajji Liaquat Ali, who owns a building materials business adjacent to Masih’s bookstore. Ali told Masih to dispose of the book by...

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Aug 12, 2026

A family of six worked side by side in the fields for years, tending someone else’s cattle from dawn to dusk – only to learn their combined labor wasn’t paying off a debt at all. It was deepening. Trapped,

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Jul 10, 2026

As many of us in the West know, life in Pakistan is much different. Christians are unjustly accused of blasphemy. Minor Christian girls are manipulated to convert to Islam and marry Muslim men – sometimes...

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Jul 07, 2026

The day we’ve all been waiting for has finally come. After roughly a dozen postponements over two years, the Supreme Court of Pakistan heard the appeal of Amoon and Qaisar Ayub – two Christian brothers on...

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