ISLAMABAD — The U.S. religious watchdog appealed Friday for the rights of a Pakistani woman from the country’s minority Ahmadis who has been jailed on blasphemy charges, declaring her a prisoner of conscience and urging Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government to immediately set her free. The statement by the U.S.
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By Gina Goh
01/07/2021 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – When Pastor A Dao walked through the doors of his home after spending four years behind bars, he found the house abandoned and in disrepair. It looked like someone had left in a hurry. Everything was covered in a layer of dust. After running around the perimeter of the house looking for the familiar faces of his wife and children, he was out of breath. The years spent in prison had damaged his health. He searched for his life savings. Those, too, were gone.
Four years earlier, A Dao had just left a conference on the freedom of religion and beliefs in Southeast Asia. As a Protestant pastor of the Montagnard Evangelical Church of Christ (MECC) and an advocate for religious freedom throughout Vietnam, it was common for him to attend such conferences. But this time, things would not go as planned. After the conference, he was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison for “helping individuals to
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USCIRF s Religious Prisoners of Conscience Project highlights individuals imprisoned for exercising their freedom of religion or belief, as well as the dedicated advocacy of USCIRF Commissioners working for their release. The USCIRF is a US federal government commission created by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998.
On April 30, 2020, Ramzan Bibi, a 55-year-old woman, was detained and accused of making blasphemous remarks during a personal dispute over the return of her charitable donation to a local mosque in Cheleki village in Pakistan s Punjab province.
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