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Note that the name "Masih", which comes from Arabic المسيحيين Al-Masihiyyin, "Christians", is a common surname in Pakistan and India among Christians.) In November 2010, Asia Bibi was sentenced to death by hanging for "blasphemy"; the sentence has to be upheld in higher court before it can be executed. [15] [16] Bibi was acquitted in 2018.
Most of the suspects in a rampage last year against minority Christians in eastern Pakistan over alleged blasphemy are not in custody and authorities have failed to deliver justice to the victims ...
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) -At least 10 members of a minority Christian community were rescued on Saturday after a Muslim crowd attacked their settlement on a blasphemy accusation in eastern ...
Christian views on slavery are varied regionally, historically and spiritually. Slavery in various forms has been a part of the social environment for much of Christianity's history, spanning well over eighteen centuries. Saint Augustine described slavery as being against God's intention and resulting from sin. [1]
The Mercedarians are an order of friars founded in Barcelona in 1218 by Saint Peter Nolasco, whose particular original mission was the saving of Christian slave-captives in the wars between Christian Aragon and Muslim Spain . Both collected money to redeem captives, and organized the business of purchasing them, so that they were useful to ...
A court in Pakistan sentenced a Christian man to death for sharing what it said was hateful content against Muslims on social media after one of the worst mob attacks on Christians in the eastern ...
Slave armies were deployed by Sultans and Caliphs at various medieval era war fronts across the Islamic Empires, [121] [133] playing an important role in the expansion of Islam in Africa and elsewhere. [134] Slavery of men and women in Islamic states such as the Ottoman Empire, states Ze'evi, continued through the early twentieth century. [114]
A Pakistani Christian accused of blasphemy and attacked by a mob last month died of his injuries on Monday, a police official said. Police in eastern Punjab province arrested more than 100 Muslim ...