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Local priest condemns arrest of Christian nurses in Pakistan Nurses Mariam Lal (second left) and Newish Urooj (second right) are pictured with police in this April 2021 photo. The women, both Christian, were accused of violating Pakistan’s blasphemy law during an April 8 shift at the Civil Hospital in Faisalabad. (Photo courtesy of INCPak) By Gina Christian • Posted April 28, 2021 An archdiocesan priest originally from Pakistan has condemned the recent arrest of two Christian nurses on charges of blasphemy in his native country. “Unfortunately, the numbers of such false cases against Christian women are increasing,” said Father Tariq Isaac, chaplain of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s Pakistani Catholic community and parochial vicar at St. William Parish in Philadelphia. ....
BIGSTOCK District Headquarters Hospital Faisalabad is a 570-bed hospital in the second-largest city in the Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province. Like all hospitals in Pakistan, it is under pressure from the Covid-19 pandemic, but it has excellent facilities and trained staff. Its modern appearance made it all the more surprising that two Christian nurses have been accused of blasphemy against the Qu’ran by their colleagues, found guilty by a hospital tribunal, beaten, fired from their jobs, charged with violating section 295-B of the Pakistan Penal Code and jailed. In Pakistan, there are effectively three outcomes for victims of an allegation of blasphemy: guilty (and blasphemy is punishable by life imprisonment), innocent (which is unlikely because judges fear assassination), and rotting in jail for decades while their lawyers appeal the verdict. ....
(Open Doors USA) Article continues below advertisement ↴ A pair of nurses in Pakistan are facing blasphemy charges after removing wall hangings and stickers from the walls of a hospital. Maryam Lal and Navish Arooj were directed by a senior nurse to clean up Civil Hosptial in Faisalabad, Pakistan on Apr. 9, Voice of the Martyrs (VOM) Canada reports. The two Christian nurses cleaned the walls but were then accused of desecrating wall hangings containing Quaran passages. VOM reports the complaint details that the head nurse, who directed the two believers to clean the walls, claimed to see Arooj scribble on a sticker that had verses from the Quaran on it before stripping it from the wall and handing it to Lal. ....
Anger as blasphemy case press conference is blocked in Pakistan Church advocates say a false case against Christian nurses was registered under public pressure The families of the Christian nurses accused of blasphemy meet Father Khalid Rashid (second right), former vicar general of Faisalabad Diocese, on April 9. (Photo: Father Khalid Rashid) Catholic officials and lawyers in Pakistan are upset about not being allowed to a hold a press conference following the arrest of two Christian nurses for alleged blasphemy. On April 9, staff nurse Mariam Lal and student nurse Newish Urooj were detained by police after a first information report under section 295-B of the blasphemy law was made by Dr. Mirza Muhammad Ali of Civil Hospital, Faisalabad, who accused them of scratching a sticker inscribed with “Durood Shareef,” a salutation for Prophet Muhammad. ....