USCIRF Condemns Houthis for Summoning 19 Baha is to Stand Trial on Spurious Charges – Ghana Visions ghanavisions.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ghanavisions.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Pakistan has failed miserably to protect Hindus, their temples
By
Ateet Sharma ( IANS) |
Published on
Tue, Feb 9 2021 14:33 IST |
0 Views
Pakistan has failed miserably to protect Hindus, their temples (Indian Narrative). Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, Feb 9 : A one-man commission constituted by the Pakistani Supreme Court in 2019 to oversee implementation of its judgement on minority rights has in its report submitted last week revealed a shocking state of some of the most revered Hindu sites in the country.
The Shoaib Suddle Commission told the highest appellate court of the country that the Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) has failed to maintain most of the ancient and holy sites of the minority community. Headquartered in Lahore, ETPB was established in 1960 to look after the evacuee trust properties/land left over by the Sikh/Hindus who migrated to India during partition in 1947-48.
Pakistan’s Layers of Persecution: Education
From an early age, students in Pakistan are told to be intolerant of non-Muslims, which is reinforced by behavior modeled and tolerated by Pakistan’s educators.
By William Stark Karachi, Pakistan - April 16, 2011: Group of slum children from a poor Pakistani family in a rural part of Karachi, Pakistan.Poverty is one of the major social problem in Pakistan. It is higher in rural areas and lower in the cities.
02/03/2021 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – The persecution of Christians in Pakistan is severe and complex. Pakistani Christians are treated as second-class citizens simply because of their religious identity as non-Muslims. Christians face many forms of abuse, including false blasphemy accusations, physical assaults, attacks on places of worship, abductions, and forced conversions to Islam.
February 1, 2021 Share
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF, Independent US Federal Government Commission), in its annual report 2020, recommended for placing India under the category of ’countries of particular concern’, thereby tarnishing the image of the country for alleged religious persecution of minorities. The report seems to have relied on the information provided by the United Christian Forum, Persecution Relief and the Evangelical Fellowship of India.
The United Christian Forum had released on its website, a half-yearly report (January-June 30, 2020) containing 122 incidents. Many of the incidents were exaggerated and not factual. Moreover, incidents of criminal nature were portrayed as communal without corroboration. The UCF had launched (January 23, 2015) a national helpline number for the victims of violence and information provided on this helpline was treated as incidents of religious persecution of minorities. The off
In communist China, practicing a certain faith, printing, or even reading religious books could result in prison terms and abuse. Spiritual believers in China – be it Christians, Buddhists, Uyghur Muslims, or Falun Gong practitioners – are faced not only with brutal suppression or forced-labor terms but also have their religious books burned or trashed at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), epoch times reports.
Updates on Christian persecution appear in the Journal from China,
Bitter Winter. In an article in Bitter Winter, tItled “More accounts from across China on crackdowns against Protestant places of worship,”
Lu Xiaojing reports:
Shandong Province: On July 2, 2020 the Lanling county government in the prefecture-level city of Linyi demolished a Three-Self Church venue in one of the villages under its jurisdiction because it was “too close to a village committee office.”