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The Passion of the Baptist, Not the Christ By Agron Belica
A well written and well thought out alternative to what was at best a problematic and most likely fictitious account of the personalities involved in the crucifixion. Belica’s evidence to support his supposition is very strong, much stronger than can be found in the new testament.
—Professor P. Dreier, Encore Music Academy
PAKISTAN: Three injured in shooting at Catholic St. Franciscan High School
Behar Colony is the second largest Christian residential area in Lahore and Lahore is the second largest city of Pakistan.
Global News Centre
(LAHORE) Friday, armed men opened fire on a missionary institution, St. Franciscan High School, in Behar colony Lahore . One student and two security guards were injured and have were hospitalized. Students and faculty panicked in the school as gunmen fired.
The unidentified gunmen began firing and as the guards on duty outside the school intercepted, they were caught in the firing and injured . The students of the school were directed to leave the school premises. The investigation is underway. The Churches and Christian institutions already have been warned about security threat from hardliners.
Behar Colony is the second largest Christian residential area in Lahore and Lahore is the second largest city of Pakistan.
On Wednesday, Nouman Masih, a 14 year old young Christian boy, lost the battle of life in Mayo Hospital. He was set on fire by an unknown men after inquiring about his Christian faith.
On 1st April, brother of human rights defender Mr. Sardar Mushtaq Gill, head of LEAD (Legal Evangelical Development) miraculously survived after being attacked and shot by a Muslim man in his lower back .The perpetrators have not yet been arrested and the police refused to provide security. Mr.Gill’s life was threatened due to his legitimate and non-violent human rights work which he has performed constantly in recent years. His life has been at risk, as well as his family’s. Yet he says he is wholeheartedly determined to stand in the support of victims of violence and to raise his voice against the violation of human rights in Pakistan.
The Christian School of Pakistan became the target of uncalled for violence again. On 24 March, two masked motorcyclists opened fire on policemen guarding St. Peter’s Catholic Church and High School in the Girja Chowk area of Township, Lahore. Gunshots left two people injured.
These shooting incidents come after the two churches were attacked by the suicide bombers in Youhanabad, the largest Christian locality in Pakistan.
In the church attacks, young Akash Bashir, who was on duty as a voluntary security guard outside the church, lost his life while attempting to stop a suicide bomber from entering the Church. 21people were killed in that attack.
After a lynching of two suspects, the government started a crackdown against Christians. This included arresting activists and a number of Christians from Youhanabad and surrounding areas.
The Christian minority, a poverty-stricken community in Pakistan, constantly is marginalized and victimised by such violence.The extremism is the main reason for violence against religious minorities. It is time to eradicate religious extremism and discrimination from the society to achieve a peaceful atmosphere where justice can prevail and rule of law should be implemented. The religious minorities should be given equal rights and should be treated equally before law.
Our request for you all first pray and then to stand in our support and raise your voice for religious liberty which is beibg made more worsened and against the religious extremism and terrorism. Our work for justice will be more strengthening with your practical support.
PAKISTAN: Suicide blasts in churches
Human Rights Groups Must Defy Terror Bombings of Christian Churches
Global News Centre
(LAHORE) Fifteen Christians were killed and more than 80 injured when two Taliban suicide bombers attacked two churches in Lahore on Sunday.
The volunteer human rights group LEAD (Legal Evangelical Assistance Development) extends it sympathies to the families who lost loved ones and calls for all human rights groups to make a public and international statement of outrage on the terrorist attacks on Pakistan Christian churches, killing 15 and injuring nearly 80, as of current news reports.
The bombings on Christian churches during Sunday prayer services occurred in the Youhanabad neighborhood of Lahore on Catholic and Protestant churches.
Father of gang-raped Christian girls demands justice for his daughters
Ilyas Masih, Father of gang-raped Christian girls Sherish and Farzana takes on the rapists with help of BPCA and LEAD.
The girls were reportedly taken to a home and repeatedly gang-raped, beaten and abused, turn by turn the whole night.
Mushtaq Gill Special to Global News Centre
(LAHORE) On 9 March, 2015, Ilyas Masih, father of two gang-raped underage Catholic girls, came to meet Sardar Mushtaq Gill, Human Rights Defender and High Court Advocate for free legal assistance to challenge the grant of bail that saw two rapists set free and for trial of the two cases. The meeting transpired after British Pakistani Christian Association Chairman, Wilson Chowdhry, approached Sardar Mushtaq Gill, Human Rights Defender and Chief of the Legal Evangelical Development Association (LEAD) on behalf of two Christian under age girls. Mr Chowdhry expressed his desire to push for justice for the girls who were beaten, spat upon and had their faith mocked during one of the most brutal rape ordeals in Pakistan (click here).
PAKISTAN: Qadri’s appeal hearing in Taseer’s muder case,the court re-issue notices to Taseer’s legal heirs
Reportedly, the important records related to the Salman Taseer murder case mysteriously disappeared from the office of the attorney general in the Islamabad High Court after the appeal of Mumtaz Qadri was fixed for hearing last week.
Global News Centre
(ISLAMABAD) The Islamabad High Court heard Qadri’s appeal petition, the killer of former Punjab governor Salman Taseer, against his death sentence which was given in 2011 by the Anti Terrorism Court of Islamabad. A two-member bench of comprising Justice Noor-Ul-Haq Qureshi and Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui re-issued a notice to Taseer’s legal heirs.
More than 50 lawyers, including former chief justice of Lahore High Court Khawaja Sharif the main leading counsel of Qadri’s appeal case, were present in the court for his defense.
PAKISTAN: Anti-Charlie Hebdo protesters attack Bannu Christian School
More discrimination against religious minorities in Pakistan…
Global News Centre
(BANU) While a series of protests is taking place throughout the whole country, in Banu city of Khyber, Pakhtunkhwa, hundreds of students protested against a French magazine for publishing caricatures of the Prophet of Islam. They stormed a Christian boys’ school demanding its closure and reportedly four students were hurt as protesters damage property, smash windows.
LIVE: Pastor Anwar Fazal Isaac TV first Christan televison in Pakistan
Christians in Pakistan, as the largest online Christian platform has deemed it necessary to publicize this Pakistani Christian Evangelical channel through every possible means.
Global News Centre
(ISLAMABAD) ISAAC television is the first 24 hour Christian evangelical television channel to be broadcasted on air. Christian programs are relayed diverse languages such as Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, English and various other Asian languages.
The channel targets Asian audiences who can watch programs in their own native languages. ISAAC tv aims to share the un-compromised Word of God by capturing the hearts and minds of viewers from all over the world with Church Services, Christian Films, Youth and Children’s Programs, Christian Music Programs, Biblical Documentaries, Christian Talk Shows and much of this kind.
“Islamic Sharia should be enforced for peace in Pakistan” - Protestant Bishop of Lahore
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The statement of the Lahore Bishop has endorsed the demand of TTP and Extremists clerics who also seek to enforce the Islamic Sharia.
Global News Centre
(LAHORE) National Peace Conference held on Monday, 19 January in which Bishop of Lahore Rt. Rev. Irfan Jamil stated that we should have to enforce Islamic Sharia for the establishment of peace in Pakistan.
The statement is published in daily Urdu Jang News Paper.
Mentally unstable blasphemy suspect shot dead by unknown men after prison release
Advocates in Pakistan say Blasphemy laws are causing great strife among religious minorities.
Pakistan’s blasphemy law is increasingly becoming an overwhelming weapon in the arsenal of religious extremists.
Global News Centre
(TAXILA) A Muslim man who reportedly considered himself a prophet in October 2011, 52-year-old Abid Mehmood alias Abid Kazzab, was brutally murdered shortly after being released from custody. Mr. Mehmood was the owner of a hotel, he lived in the village of Kamra. According to reports, he was turned in to authorities for blasphemy under Section 295-C of PPC, by his own son in law, Sadaqat Ali.
Pakistan: Two minor sisters reportedly gang raped at gunpoint by three Muslim men
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If you are thinking of helping someone at Christmas these innocent Christians who have suffered so much, would make worthy candidates.
Global News Centre
(FAISALABAD) Today, Pastor Razaq came to LEAD (Legal Evangelical Assistance Development) office and requested for legal assistance and support for two sisters who were abducted and raped at gunpoint by three Muslim men at Jaranwala village Chak No.651/2, a very small village with approximatly 200 families, of which around forty are Christian. Most residents earn their livelihood as labourers. div>
Was Jesus Crucified?
Spiritual Beast
In this book, Agron Belica offers a fresh interpretation of the momentous events on a hillock beyond the walls of Jerusalem nearly two millennia ago: the Crucifixion. Belica asks disconcerting questions about the received version of gospel “history” and gives free rein to his inquisitive nature. Many of his ideas and speculations will strike the casual reader schooled in the ancient Biblical Traditions with which they conflict as unhistorical, impossible, and unbelievable. Yet, when questioning established premises, the impossible may often be shown to be possible, as Socrates was fond of doing.