A taste of life in Pakistan, via a couple of recent items from the (Catholic) AsiaNews.
In the summer of 2009 a Muslim mob, fired up by rumours of the desecration of a Koran, attacked Christians and set fire to their houses in the town of Gojra, in Pakistan's central Punjab. Ten people died, eight burnt alive. Four churches were destroyed.
.... Seventy people were subsequently put on trial for the massacre. All have now been acquitted: .... They are taught that Christians and people of other religions may be killed if they do not accept Islam. And the authorities turn a blind eye to this problem."
AsiaNews may not be the most impartial source here. but no one else seems to covering the fate of the beleaguered Christian minority in Pakistan. And they're not making this stuff up. [Mick Hartley] Read more
