Anwar Kenneth surrounded by police. morningstar news Update: October 21, 2025 After 24 years in prison, Anwar Kenneth, a 72-year-old Pakistani Christian, is finally free! Kenneth was sentenced to death in 2001, on charges of “blasphemy,” after writing a letter to a Muslim religious scholar expressing his Christian beliefs. Last year, a legal team supported… Read more »
S. Bibi lives with her husband, who is fighting cancer, and their children in Pakistan. csi S. Bibi, a 38-year-old Christian woman from a small town in Pakistan’s Punjab province, is fighting a legal battle with the support of CSI after being deceived into legally converting to Islam and forcibly married by a Muslim man… Read more »
Tabish N., middle, had to wait years to officially be recognized as a Christian. csi Tabish N. converted to Christianity in 2008 shortly before her marriage to a Catholic man, Khurram Shahzad. But it has taken until now for Tabish to win the right to have her new religion entered on her official identification papers…. Read more »
Chand (middle) and his family have been through very challenging times. csi Chand Shamaun, a 26-year-old ambulance driver from a Christian quarter in Punjab Province, was arrested on June 23, 2024. The police were reportedly called after Chand had a public disagreement with his brother over the division of inherited property. Matters rapidly escalated… Read more »
Haider Ali following his acquittal, more than four years after his arrest aged 13. csi Haider Ali was just 13 years old when another Muslim falsely accused him of blasphemy in September 2020. He would spend the next three years of his life behind bars. On April 7, 2025, Haider was finally acquitted. Bail and… Read more »
On August 16, there was a large mob attack on a the Christian neighborhood in Pakistan, called Jaranwala, after some local Muslims accused Christians of burning a Qur’an. No one was killed, but 21 churches and many houses were burned. 2,500 people had to flee their homes. Two Christian men accused of desecrating the Qur’an… Read more »
A Christian cleaner, Mussarat Bibi, is in custody in Pakistan along with her Muslim colleague, Muhammad Sarmad, after being accused of deliberately setting fire to pages of the Koran. Bibi and Sarmad, workers at a girls’ school in Arifwala, Punjab, are unable to read and write. Bibi is widowed and has three daughters. Her job… Read more »
In Pakistan, exceptionally heavy monsoon rains are causing devastation and untold suffering among the population. Hundreds of thousands of women, men and children have lost everything. CSI is providing emergency aid. It is urgent. Due to the severe drought, the monsoon was eagerly awaited, but in Pakistan this year it brought death and destruction. In… Read more »
Millions of people, especially Christians and Hindus, work in slave-like conditions in Pakistan’s brickworks. Many are in debt to their unscrupulous employers. Thanks to the generosity of its donors, Christian Solidarity International (CSI) has been able to help several families break free. The work is unimaginably hard: a labourer’s family has to mould about 1,000… Read more »
Some 4.5 million people, 70 percent of them children, work in appalling conditions in one of the 20,000 brick factories in Pakistan. They are paid so badly that they fall into debt and are at the mercy of their employers. Minorities, including Christians, are particularly affected. In February 2020, before the Corona crisis, the CSI… Read more »
