Pakistani priest: 130 Christians are now facing blasphemy charges
July 27, 2015
The priest who directs the Dominican order's Peace Center in Lahore said that 130 Christians are now facing blasphemy charges in Pakistan.
"According to my estimate, there are 130 Christians whose trials are proceeding," Father James Channan told Aid to the Church in Need. "But people will be surprised to learn that there are about 950 Muslims currently held under the law. The law is far more enacted against Muslims, and very often it is a tool to settle business disputes or personal vendettas."
"But there is a big difference between accusations of Muslims and Christians: if one Muslim is accused, just one Muslim is accused," he continued. "But in the case of a Christian being accused, an entire community, an entire neighborhood is accused. And in several cases the entire Christian village or a Christian neighborhood has been burned to ashes."
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