The following are among the abuses inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of January, 2021:
Attacks on Apostates and Evangelists
Uganda: A Muslim man beat his 13-week-pregnant wife, causing her to miscarriage, after he learned that she had converted to Christianity. On Jan. 13, Mansitula Buliro, the 45-year-old woman in question and mother of seven, was preparing for Muslim evening prayers with her husband when she began to have Christian visions. On the following day she secretly visited a Christian neighbor, prayed with her, and put her faith in Christ. Right before she left, a Muslim man knocked on the Christian neighbor’s door and said, “Mansitula, I thought you were a Muslim how come I heard prayers mentioning the name of Issa [Jesus]?” Then, when Mansitula returned home her husband informed her that he had been told that she had become Christian. “I kept quiet,” Mansitula later explained in an interview:
Everything is affected. Your work, income, social status, identity, mental health, satisfaction with yourself, your life, your place in society, your independence.. And as a woman it s even harder to remain patient and endure, in a society so opposed to women and femininity, though crying out for them both. Iranian Christian convert Fatemeh (Mary) Mohammadi, articleeighteen.com, January 21, 2021; Iran. The killing of Abida and Sajida in such a merciless way is not an isolated case, but the killing, rape and forced conversion of Christian girls have become an everyday matter and the government has denied this and therefore is doing nothing to stop the ongoing persecution of Christians. Unfortunately, such cases happen very often in the country, and nobody pays any attention – even the national media – as Christians are considered inferior and their lives worthless. Nasir Sayeed, Director of the Centre for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement in the UK, January 11, 2021;
Mob attacks Pakistani Christian in hospital over blasphemy claim
Christians call for action to stop misuse of controversial laws as victim goes into hiding
Tabitha Nazir Gill with one of her burqa-clad attackers at Sobhraj Maternity Hospital in Karachi. (Photo supplied)
Tabitha Nazir Gill was slapped and stripped for alleged blasphemy at the Pakistani hospital where she had worked for nine years.
Videos showing the assault on the 30-year-old Christian nurse at Sobhraj Maternity Hospital in Karachi spread on social media on Jan. 28, moments after she was accused of insulting all prophets including Prophet Muhammad, Prophet Abraham and Prophet Adam.
Abida and Sajida went missing after going shopping. (CLAAS)
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Two young Pakastani Christian sisters in their 20s are dead after continually being harassed by coworkers to reject their Christian faith.
The Centre for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS), a Christian charity dedicated to helping persecuted Christians in Pakistan, says that Abida 26, and Sajida 28, of Makhan Colony, near Lahore, were murdered last month after they continually refused to convert to Islam.
The police have arrested two Muslim men, Mumtaz Khan and Muhammad Naeem, on suspicion of killing the women.
Mushtaq Masih, Sajida’s husband said that both sisters were working in a medicine factory, and on November 26, 2020, they went for household shopping but never came back.
Uproar over rape of Christian women in Pakistan
Christian leaders say increasing cases of rape and forced conversion have spread insecurity among the marginalized community
National Lobbying Delegation member Khalid Shehzad (second right) with the family of the slain sisters in Lahore on Jan. 9. (Photo: Khalid Shehzad)
Rani Bibi was barred from opening the coffin to see the faces of her daughters, slaughtered by Muslim men and buried last week.
Wailing women gathered around trying to comfort her at the Jan. 7 funeral in Makhan Colony, home to more than 500 Christians, in Lahore.
“Their faces were beyond recognition. I couldn’t see them for the last time. In dreams I see them agonizing in pain. I can’t tolerate this,” Bibi told UCA News.