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Two Christians shot dead in Faisalabad Pakistan??????????
Faisalabad: July 19, 2010. Muslim extremists shot dead Rahid Emmanuel and Sajjid Emmanuel in broad daylight in front of hundreds of people in district courts compound in Faisalabad today. There were rumors and reports on July 18, 2010, that both of Christian brothers are free to go home from Civil Lines Police Station Faisalabad where they were detained on July 4, 2010, under blasphemy charges on complaint of one Muslim businessman of Railway Bazar because police told friends of Rashid and Sajjid that there is no proof found against them which may extend their detention.
Today, investigation officer Mohammad Hussian produced Rashid Emmanuel and Sajjid Emmanuel before Judge in District Courts where he testified that police have investigated allegations leveled against them but found no proof that they may be charged under blasphemy.Police investigating officer Mohammad Hussian told court that complainant Mohammad Khuram Shehzad lodged FIR alleging Rashid Emmanuel and Sajjid Emmanuel producing a handwritten leaflet which he stressed is defiling Prophet Mohammad but police have report of Handwriting expert that pamphlet handwriting presented by Mohammad Khuram not match with handwriting of accused Christian brothers.
The court ordered to send Rashid Emmanuel and Sajjid Emmanuel to Judicial custody till next date to issue further orders. As there were rumors that Rashid Emmanuel and Sajjid Emmanuel are found innocent and will be released, the extremists Muslims reached in District Courts Faisalabad and were waiting for them to come out of court house. As Rashid Emmanuel and Sajjid Emmanuel were walking towards district courts custody cell with police, the unidentified gunmen opened fire and Rashid Emmanuel felt on ground.
Sajjid Emmanuel stepped to safe his brother but gunmen shot him down too. When police tried to fire back on gunmen, they also came under attack and Inspector Mohammad Hussain felt down on ground. In minutes, masked gunmen fled from scene, till medical aid reach, Rashid Emmanuel died on spot while Sajjid Emmanuel and police officer were rushed to hospital, where they were pronounced dead till our posting this sad incident. The leaders of Christian Lawyers Foundation CLF, Rao Naveed Zafar Bhatti Advocate reported that adequate security was not in district court which made easy for killers to fled from scene. Pastor Rashid Emmanuel was 32 years of age and running a Ministry while his brother Sajjid Emmanuel was helping him in Lords word.
According to reports, a blasphemy case was registered on 1st July, 2010, under section 295- C PPC, against Rashid Emanuel and Sajid Emanuel of 30 years of age who were residents of Street No.5 Daud Nagar, Faisalabad, Pakistan and arrested by police on July 4, 2010. Muhammad Khuram Shezad merchant of Railway Bazar, Faisalabad, had complained that his servant told him that both Christian accused were distributing pamphlets in open bazar which is desecrating Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) and their numbers are under the writing of the Pamphlet. He went to PS and told fabricated story to police to charge 2 Christian young men under blasphemy. The Muslims took out a procession on July 10, 2010, when they burnt tires and pelted stones on Catholic Church Warispura Faisalabad. The mob threatened that if these brothers are not executed according to Muslim law, the mob will exact revenge not only on them, but the entire Christian community.
We demand government and President of Pakistan to repeal blasphemy law by executive order to end genocide of Christians in Pakistan pretext to blasphemy law and other discriminatory laws.
The brothers were arrested on July 2, with their supporters claiming the charges against them were trumped up. The charges levied on them are false as no evidence has been brought and no witness was present, he said, adding that the pamphlets were handwritten and photocopied, and anonymously distributed with the brothers’ contact details.Earlier this month, about 400 demonstrators burned tyres and held protests in the low-income Waris Pura neighbourhood of Faisalabad, a slum inhabited by nearly 100,000 Christians, demanding the death penalty for the accused. Pakistan’s blasphemy law carries the death penalty although no one has ever been sent to the gallows for the crime.
July 2, 2010 Police arrest Pastor Rashid Emanuel and his brother Sajid Emanuel in an alleged blasphemy case. July 11, 2010 Locals stage demonstrations and torch some houses of Christians. Mosques spread messages condemning the alleged blasphemy and allegedly called for violence through their loudspeakers. July 19, 2010 Police produce the witnesses before court to get an extended judicial remand. Since evidence was lacking, militant extremists fearing the acquittal of the brothers shot them dead outside the district courts alongwith a police officer.
The charges levied on them are false as no evidence has been brought and no witness was present,” he said, adding that the pamphlets were handwritten and photocopied, and anonymously distributed with the brothers’ contact details. Earlier this month, about 400 demonstrators burned tyres and held protests in the low-income Waris Pura neighbourhood of Faisalabad, a slum inhabited by nearly 100,000 Christians, demanding the death penalty for the accused. Pakistan’s blasphemy law carries the death penalty although no one has ever been sent to the gallows for the crime. Human rights activists want the legislation repealed, saying it is exploited for personal enmity.
The two Christian men are in imminent danger after they were arrested, without a legitimate investigation, for blasphemy. The police officers involved have not followed the penal code, which only allows such charges to be made after an investigation by the superintendent of police. Blasphemy can still be met with the death penalty in Pakistan. Violent rallies by radical Muslims in the area have called for the men’s deaths, and Christians have reportedly begun to leave the neighbourhood. They fear that a new attack is planned for the end of the month, around the anniversary of a deadly attack on Christians 50km away in Korian village, Tehsil Gojra; six were set alight and burned to death.
Mosque loudspeakers are also being freely used to incite the violence, which is illegal. Immediate action must be taken to remove the men from danger, take up their case according to the laws and procedures of the country, and quell the rising tide of violence against the Christian community.
CASE NARRATIVE????
Mr. Rashid Emmanuel, 32, is a pastor. On the evening of 2 July he received a telephone call from a man who claimed to be from the La Salle School, a prominent Christian educational centre. He asked to meet Mr. Rashid about an urgent matter at Zilla Council chowk (crossroads) in Faisalabad. When Rashid arrived later that evening he saw four persons standing in the dark; before ten uniformed police officers reportedly emerged and arrested him.
He was taken to the Civil Lines Police Station nearby and shown a photocopy of a four-page handwritten pamphlet that criticized Islam and its last prophet, Muhammad (peace be upon him). The pamphlet appeared to be signed by Rashid and his younger brother Sajid Emmanuel, and instructed the reader to contact them for further information. It featured their cell phone numbers and national identity card numbers.
The police detained Rashid and released a boy who they had mistakenly thought to be Rashid’s brother. The blasphemy complaint was filed by Mr. Mohammad Khurram Shehzad, a printer who reportedly declared that his assistant had seen a man distributing the pamphlets at Lari Adda, the city’s main bus terminus, on 1 July.
On 3 July we are told that the police took Rashid to the Anti Terrorist Court (ATC) for police remand, where the case was correctly refused. Religious matters are no longer under the authority of the ATC, as maintained in clause 780 of the Anti Terrorist Act (ATA) 1997. Rashid was taken to a duty magistrate in the Civil Lines jurisdiction, who agreed to his two-day remand in police custody, despite the breach of procedure.
We are told that during this time the sub inspector summoned Atif Pagan to the police station and asked that he produce Rashid’s young brother. For his protection, Pagan arranged for Sajid to be handed to the police in the presence of Bishop Joseph Couetts of Faisalabad. The police then asked the brothers to handwrite each pamphlets three times. On 7 July the writing samples were sent to experts in Lahore, around 200km from Faisalabad, but the experts reportedly replied that they could not work from the photocopied pamphlets.
we are told that the loudspeakers from a number of mosques were used illegally to do so, and to incite violence against local Christians (in breach, as noted below, of Section 3 of the Loud Speaker Act 1965). On 7 July a procession in Warispura saw local Muslim residents chanting threatening slogans against Christians; one chant called for the hanging of Rashid and Sajid, and we are informed that the mob attacked a Catholic Church, breaking its windows and doors. On 10 July persons in another procession burnt tires on the streets; a call went up declaring that Christians would not be allowed to live in Warispura. At 1am that night a procession of motorbikes took place, with riders allegedly harassing Christians who were leaving their homes with their belongings. The protestors announced that a meeting would be held at Ghanta Chowk on 11 July, a central gathering place for such rallies.
We are told that the police began efforts to address the protestors on the evening of 10 July, and that after a number of meetings it was agreed that the rallies and threats should stop. However protest gatherings continued on 11 July, and united into a large meeting at noon, at which Muslim leaders from various religious political parties, among them Khatme-e-Nabowat, Jamiat Ulema-ePakistan and Namoos-e-Risalat reportedly reiterated death threats against the brothers, because the government had not sentenced them to death. We are told that among the speakers were Sahibzada Abulkhair Mahumed Zubair and Syed Hidayat Hussain Shah, who are known for inciting violence in the area. At the meeting it was announced that a set of gallows had been set up at the tower of Ghanta Ghar (in the centre of Faisalabad), in preparation for the hanging of blasphemous Christians.
We are told that the brothers remain in detention at the police station without adequate protection against mob violence. There are strong fears that they could be attacked. The men have reported that co-detainees are also threatening them. Immediate action must be taken to remove them from danger, provide strong state protection, take up their case according to the laws and procedures of the country, and quell the rising tide of violence against the Christian community.
Religious minority groups in Pakistan remain vulnerable due to the continued use and abuse of blasphemy charges, despite section 295C of the PPC. This must be strongly implemented if minorities are to be protected. Police who fail to follow the code and who operate under the directive of extremists in the community must face strong legal action. Charges of blasphemy are still met with the death penalty in Pakistan, and desecrating the Quran carries a life sentence.
The Sajid, Rashid’s brother, went to tell the police that his brother was innocent, he too was arrested by the police. 295-C of Pakistan Penal Code reads: “Use of derogatory remarks, etc; in respect of the Holy Prophet. Whoever by words, either spoken or written or by visible representation, or by any imputation, innuendo, or insinuation, directly or indirectly, defiles the sacred name of the Holy Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) shall be punished with death, or imprisonment for life, and shall also be liable to fine.
First Information Report (FIR) against Rashid Emmanuel and Sajid Masih and quoted him as stating stating that he read many posters containing “blasphemous content” in the Faisalabad Lorry Station and that details of the United Ministries Pakistan were present on the posters. Rashid Emmanuel and Sajid’s family members have fled to safety, fearing more trouble. He described the situation in Warispura Christian colony in Faisalabad as “tense” and that the Christians there are hoping not to face a “Gojra-like situation. Gojra, a small town in province Punjab of Pakistan exploded into international limelight last year when seven Christians were burned alive by angry Muslims over rumors that Christians had committed blasphemy.
The Christians of Warispura, a large Christian colony in Faisalabad, are feeling “highly insecure” after Muslims have held a string of rallies over the past week. The local human rights activist said that a large number of enraged Muslims attended a rally in Warispura on July 12, 2010, and among those there were students of nearby Madrassas (religious schools). That agitation rallies were taken out across Faisalabad city on July 13, 2010. He said these rallies headed towards Ghantaghar and Railway Road Faisalabad. He quoted one of his friends, who had heard on Friday, July 16, 2010 mosque announcements provoking Muslims to protest at a rally and also to “burn the houses of Christians.
The Muslims could not succeed in setting Christians’ houses on fire on Friday, July 16, 2010 but did not rule out this possibility in the days to come “as the situation on the ground stands tense and uncertain. He said that Rashid and Sajid were imprisoned in district Jail Faisalabad.
Asked if the two Christian men could be attacked in prison, he referred to “extra judicial killings of Christians in police custody” in past and said that an attempt to kill the two men in prison “could not be ruled out. According to media reports, the Christians of Daud Nagar, Warispura, Barkatpura, Bilal Town, Ibne Marriam and Jhandapir in Faisalabad are living under constant fear as a result of processions taken out by extremist Muslim organizations.
One Christian dead and many injured in Warispura, a Christian colony in Faisalabad after murder of Two Christian Brothers accused of blasphemy in Pakistan. Muslim extremists gunned down Pastor Rashid Emmanuel and Sajjid Emmanuel today in District Courts of Faisalabad. At night Muslim mob of thousands attacked Christian Colonies of Warispura and Daudnagar and started firing with automatic firearms. The Police kept closed eyes and did nothing to safe life and property of Christians: Firing is going on to this posting.
Dear Brother/Sister in Christ! Please pray for the believers of Pakistan and others in these 10 countries like North Korea, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, China, Pakistan, Philippines, Eritrea, Egypt, India, Malaysia, Nepal, Laos and Indonesia. There are more than (200 Million Christians) worldwide who live in countries where there is overt social or governmental anti-Christian hostility. This hostility is expressed in various forms – from harassment, job discrimination and imprisonment to rape, torture and assassination. Pray for the pastors and church leaders especially, as they are often the primary targets for persecution. We know that your prayers can change nations. Pray also for the political leaders of these countries (1Tim 2:1-3) that they might repent of their hardness of heart and come to salvation through Christ. Please help with your prayers that we can win “All Indonesia” as well as that other country for Jesus Christ. And May God blesses you all
who pray for us. I hope every Christians in your countries have freedom and growing rapidly in Christ. Thank you so very much. Jesus blesses you all.
Yours Servant in Christ!
Reverend Pervaiz Khokhar
Chairman
The Preaching Society & Social Welfare Services
Mohallah Rasool Pura Street No 7
Jhumra City 37700
Faisalabad,
PAKISTAN
Telephone: +92-41-8527541
Mobilephone: +92-300-7914561
E.Mail:pervaiz_khokhar2004@yahoo.com
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2010 New Mexico Biblical Worldview Conference.
Day 10: Sunday, July 25, 2010
PRAYER FOCUS:
Please pray a prayer of PRAISE to the Lord today.
SCRIPTURES:
By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of PRAISE to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to HIS name.
Hebrews 13: 15
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2010 New Mexico Biblical Worldview Conference
The Manhattan Declaration – Defending Life, Marriage & Religious Liberty
Date: Wednesday, August 25th
Location: Albuquerque Convention Center
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Open to Public” Schedule:
7:00 AM Doors open
7:15-7:45 Continental Breakfast
8:00-12:35 General Session
· Chuck Colson-Manhattan Declaration – Biblical Worldview
· Michael Novak – On Two Wings
· Os Guinness – Impossible People
· Joseph Bottum – 21st Century Catholics/Evangelicals Together
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Co-Chairs: Archbishop Michael Sheehan, Archdiocese of Santa Fe
Pastor and Former Congressman Bill Redmond