There are currently 25,000 Christians in Islamabad, Pakistan, who are suddenly being asked to leave their homes by the nation’s Islamic authorities.
Christian families living in the capital city were told that they must leave within the next few days, per a report from International Christian Concern.
These families were resettled in Islamabad after the Rimsha Masih case in 2013, during which Masih, then a 14-year-old girl, was arrested on blasphemy charges.
Authorities claimed that she desecrated pages from the Quran.
Two weeks later, the Muslim cleric who reported her to the police was arrested for allegedly planting the pages in her bag, and she was eventually acquitted.
International Christian Concern noted that because Masih was a Christian, the case created “serious threats against the Christian community.”
Many families were moved to the communities in Islamabad “so they could live without fear,” and have built new lives there over more than a decade.
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