July 2, 2015 – Supporting Persecuted Christians in Pakistan
A Christian family had their faces painted black, their heads shaved and a garland of shoes placed around their necks, before being paraded through a village following blasphemy accusations.
The attack was prompted when the Muslim wife of a milkman, Kaneez Asghar, asked for a plastic sheet – which had some Arabic script on it – that was being used as a floor mat at the home of Rehana Qamar and Awais Qamar in the village of Maki Chak 460 in the district of Sheikhupura, Punjab.
When Kaneez visited the home she saw the children sitting on the mat and eating food. She noticed some Hadith words written on it – “Oh my Lord, increase me in my knowledge”.
Being uneducated, Rehana and Rukhsana, who also lived at the address, could not read what was written.
Kaneez asked Rehana to give the mat to her as it had some holy words on it, but Rehana said that she bought it from Faisalabad and could only sell to her.