Christian Mother Of Five Sentenced To Death On Fabricated Blasphemy Charges-Pakistan

A Christian mother of five has been sentenced to death on fabricated blasphemy charges in Pakistan.   Fabricated blasphemy charges against Christians by muslims in Pakistan are routine, ever since Pakistan instituted the blasphemy law. 

• "This shameful law - said the Muslim scholar, director of the Centre for Society and Secularism - are used with impunity against minority religious communities by those motivated by personal enmity, by those motivated by monetary material or political gain or even land grabbing  Even indirect inferences are drawn and the accused is arrested under Blasphemy Law….there is nothing religious about".

All you have to do is a quick scan of Asia News.it, now reporting that a Christian woman has been sentenced to death for blasphemy, or Bos News Life to learn of the horrible treatment of Christians in Pakistan by muslims, and for the most part,  overlooked by the government.

Asia News.it reports that:

Some of the women workers had reportedly been pressuring Bibi to renounce her Christian faith and accept Islam. During one discussion, Bibi responded by speaking of how Jesus had died on the cross for the sins of humanity and asking the Muslim women what Muhammad had done for them.

The Muslim women took offence and began beating Bibi. Afterwards she was locked in a room. According to Release International, a mob reportedly formed and “violently abused” her and her children.

According to the National Commission on Justice and Peace of the Catholic Church, the blasphemy law has often been used as a pretext for personal attacks or vendettas as well as extra-judicial murders. Overall, 33 people have died this way at the hands of individuals or crazed mobs.

Also reporting on this story is ChattahBox.com:

Pakistan (ChattahBox World News) — A Pakistani court handed down a sentence of death by hanging yesterday for Asia Bibi, a mother of five who practices Christianity,and was accused of blasphemy, the UK Telegraph reports.

Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.  Matthew 24:9

The 45-year-old, who has been held in prison since June 2009, was working alongside Muslims in a field as a farmhand when her co-workers refused to drink the water that she had brought for the group, saying that it was “unclean” due to Bibi’s belief in Christianity. A fight ensued, during which a mob attacked Bibi and the police escorted her to a station to protect her.

Police subsequently filed a blasphemy case against her, the Telegraph reports. Human rights groups have noted that the information put forth during the trial indicates that Bibi did not speak ill of the Prophet Mohammed, but the court still found her guilty, sparking accusations of Pakistani discrimination due to Bibi’s status as a religious minority.

Please pray for this courageous Christian sister  that our Lord will vindicate her  and protect her as she gives witness to Him who died to save her.  In addition, please contact the US State Department and ask them to protect this Christian sister and her family.

UPDATE: Related Story: Campaign To Save Asia Bibi Captures Attention Of President Asif Ali Zardi

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Convicted To Die, Jailed Mother Of Five Asia Bibi Lives In Constant Fear

A prayer appeal for Asia Bibi

Open Doors has an update on our Christian sister, Pakistani mother of five, Asia Bibi who was convicted to die under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws on fabricated charges and now  lives in constant fear.  Please pray for Asia Bibi’s safety and God’s supernatural protection around her as she remains confined in jail in Pakistan. Also, please keep Asia’s husband and her children in your prayers for their safety and protection.

Speaking for Asia, her husband said that Asia is very afraid.

Her conviction triggered a violent chain of events in Pakistan, including the Jan. 4 murder of Taseer by his bodyguard after the governor voiced support for her.

“She knows the Muslims have announced a prize on her head and would go to any lengths to kill her,” a visibly nervous Masih told Compass. “The governor’s murder in broad daylight has put her in a state of paranoia.”

He added that threats by Islamist extremists have dampened Noreen’s hope of getting justice from the Lahore High Court, where her appeal against the conviction has been filed but yet to be taken up.

Wearing a dark cloak to hide his identity, Masih was visibly nervous after meeting with her on Jan. 11.

“She was asking me about the situation outside,” he said. “I tried to console her, but she knows it’s really bad. She’s also worried about the children.”

The mother of two children and stepmother to three others, Noreen asked him to appeal for more prayers for her, he said.

“Please tell everyone to pray for her,” he said. Read more here

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Pakistan President Will Grant Asia Bibi A Pardon

There is wonderful news from Assist News Service. The latest report on our Pakistani Christian sister, Asia Bibi who was sentenced to hang on fabricated blasphemy charges in Pakistan, is that Pakistan’s president will grant Asia Bibi a pardon.

Even though the charges were all false to begin with, and these obscene charges should be thrown out, let us all be thankful to the Lord Jesus Christ  in this blessed season of Thanksgiving that Asia will soon be home with her family.

•  In every thing give thanks: for this is pthe will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 1 Thess. 5:18

Meanwhile, it is being reported from Voice of the Martyrs that CNN is reporting that two prominent Pakistani Muslim leaders threatened today to call for nationwide protests if the president pardons Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death for insulting the Muslim prophet Mohammed.

Continue to pray for Asia's protection and if necessary, her safe removal from this Christian  hostile environment to a place of safety for her and her family.


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Campaign To Save Asia Bibi Captures Attention of President Asif Ali Zardi

Thanks to caring people like you from all over the world who have prayed for Asia Bibi and who have expressed outrage over the sentencing to death by hanging, the petition and campaign to save Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian mother of five on trumped up blasphemy charges has captured the attention of President Asif Ali Zardari who has now asked for a report on the case and could issue a pardon even before a court issues its decision on an appeal against the verdict, said Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan's minister for minority affairs.

This is good news friends. A full report on the update of this good news is here, and here.

Keep up the prayers for Asia  to our wonderful Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,  and if you haven’t let your voice be heard over the cruel treatment of Asia Bibi and of Christians and other minority groups in Pakistan because of Pakistan’s obscene ’blasphemy law’, please do so here.  We are all brothers and sisters in Christ, and when one of us suffers for His name sake,  all of us suffer.

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Campaign And Petition To Save Asia Bibi, Revoke Pakistan's Obscene 'Blasphemy Law'

A campaign with petition to save Asia Bibi, the 45 year old Christian and mother of five who was convicted on fabricated blasphemy charges and sentenced to die by hanging has now been launched in several countries, including Italy, Pakistan, India and the United States of America, and to revoke Pakistan's obscene 'blasphemy law.' This innocent woman has been sentenced to hang simply because she is a Christian and the government of Pakistan is sanctioning this insane  blasphemy law.

While it is hoped that the petition signed by people from all over the world will save Asia Bibi from death by hanging on this  trumped up charge, it is also intended to bring attention to the obscene Pakistan 'blasphemy law' which has been used far too long to kill innocent Christians and other minority groups in Pakistan, among other things, and to revoke this law.

• Up until now, the blasphemy law had not led to an execution of any accused or convicted. But 33 people charged with blasphemy were killed in prison by guards, or in the vicinity of the court. The latest such case involved two Protestant Christians, Pastor Emmanuel and his brother Rashid Sajjad, shot at point blank range as they left the court in Faisalabad on 19 July. However we can group these deaths with those killed in the massacres of entire villages, in Gojra, Korian, Kasur, Sangla Hill, where hundreds of houses belonging to Christians were burned and where women and children were killed or burned alive, just because one member of the village had been accused of blasphemy.

It is now startlingly clear that this law has become a tool in the hands of fundamentalists that pit Muslims against Christians in order to measure the extent of their power over Pakistani society. It is also clear that almost all the accusations of blasphemy are born from envy, revenge, competition, and that the arrest of the accused is but the first step to allow the expropriation of land, looting and theft. More at link.

Please go to article to sign petition.

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Merry Christmas

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Christmas is a time to joyfully celebrate the birth of our wonderful Lord and Saviour, the Messiah, Jesus. Around the world Christians gather together to proclaim this most joyous and holy event in human history, without which human kind would be lost forever in total darkness.

In my own immediate family, we come together as one to give thanks to our Lord Jesus Christ for loving us enough to come out of eternity and into a world full of strife and sin, caring enough about us to suffer an unspeakable death and atone for the wrath that God required of Him, his only begotten Son, to take away the immeasurable burden of sin in the world. We thank God that we are so blessed to be free. This makes it a truly Merry Christmas for us.

For other Christians, though, it is not possible for them to be together at this joyous time. They can only hope and dream of what western believers in Christ take for granted -- being with those family members who mean so much to them. In certain parts of the world, such as the Middle East and countries controlled by Islamic and communist governments such as Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan North Korea, Loas and China to name just a few Christians are not as fortunate.  In fact, being Christian is an automatic death sentence in the Middle East.

For instance, Asia Bibi, a Christian mother of three young children who was falsely accused of blasphemy against the Islamic prophet Muhammad in Pakistan remains in isolation in prison since 2009. A charge Asia denies, she was sentenced to death in 2010; and Asia is still awaiting an appeal with a very long wait anticipated.

The good news is that we are not without hope because  we serve a God of miracles, and not a dead God. The miraculous conception of our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, is a miracle. Our Lord is the same yesterday, today and forever. Hebrews 13:8. Our God heals His people every day and our God sets people free every day.

In this most holy season that we celebrate the birth of our great God, Jesus Christ, when we gather with our families, let us remember to pray for our not so fortunate brothers and sisters around the world who are being held in prisons in extreme conditions because they love the Lord Jesus Christ that this will be the year that the Lord chooses to set them free once and for all.

Merry Christmas

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