On 26th April, 2013 at about 2:00pm a source told KhurramAkhtar (Research officer, The Voice) that an incidence of persecution against Christians has happened in Chak31-10/REssapur, where the Muslims have held the Christians for insulting Makkah Sharif, a Mob of Muslims about 50-80 people gathered the house of a Christian family named Albert Masih and started shouting and raising slogans there, ” kill these bleady Christians they are liable to be burnt like BadamiBagh”. The Voice team comprised of Adv. Aneeqa Maria, KhurramAkhtar, Shahid Anthony and NapoleanQayyum left Lahore to visit the affected Village. The team reached at the villageat about 10:00pm. The area was restricted and nobody was allowed to enter the village. A police officer told the Voice team that the whole village is empty and the Christian families have left. The situation is very critical there and there is a call from the Sipa-SahabaMuslim Ulema community to attack the Christian houses. Therefore people have left but police is there to protect the village.
The Voice team came to know from a source that the affected/ persecuted family has taken refuge in another village. The Voice team went ahead to see the family. The TVS team reached there to see the family at about 1:00am.There we met many affected families including NasirAnjum, KaleemMasih, and SamuelSahotra. They told us about the incidence in detail.
Nasir Anjum told TVS (The Voice Society) That the situation started became tense after the occurrence of BadamiBagh in Lahore i.e after Jan 2013, the Muslims became livid after the incidence of 295C in Badamiubagh and planned to wipeout Christians from their towns and villages saying that all Christians are anti-Islamic, they use to insult our Holy Quran and Holy prophet. They do not respect our religion and therefore they should not live in our communities. The Village 31. Chak is comprised of 40 Christian houses, and therefore the Muslims started teasing and harassing Christians. Almost 25 days ago the Muslims started dispute saying that you people lay your weaved beds in the wrong directions. The foot of your bed lays in the direction of Makkah Sharif, which is very insulting and unbearable for us. The argument went manic and the Christians called the police on 15, but the police reached 4hours late. The people from the neighbors settled down the situation. Later when the police came the Muslim group that was creating aggravationexcused from the Christians that they were wrong. But then each day afterwards the Muslims named Madd Khan, Aziz Ullah Khan, Javed Khan, Yousaf Khan, Majeeb-Ur- Rehman, Shifaullah Khan, Sana Ullah khan, JamshedUllah Khan, Ajmal Khan, Amin Ullah Khan, Nadeem Khan, Shahid Khan and Adreem Khan started laying eyes upon Christians and do not let go any petty issue to quarrel with the Christians.
Kaleem Masih told the Voice that on the day of occurrence the Christian family named Albert Nathenial, his son David Albert, and his relative Samuel Yaqoob were in their house when Madad Khan along with his fellows and sons named above came to their house and started shouting and hitting them with the bricks on the walls of the house that why did you used the thresher of the other party this time when you always use our thresher for cutting the crops. The dispute elevated and turned into a fight. Later Madad Khan and his fellows called their other fellows and the quarrel turned into fierce firing upon the house of the Christians. The Muslims started breaking the doors of the house to enter the house, whereas in the house there were women and children of the family. David and Albert also started throwing bricks from their roof just to save their family. Meanwhile David snatched a gun from one of the attackers but the gun was loaded and it fired a shot due to which a man from the attackers named Yousaf khan died at the spot and another person got severely injured and is in hospital.
The police have arrested more than 20 people among them many are injured, the police have registered a Murder case against Christians which is actually a self- Defense and did not proceeded against Muslims. Now the Muslims are consistent that they will bury their dead only when they will burn the Christians and their villages and their families. The Christian families from the villages have escaped and took refuge in Shanti Nagar and other villages around where as the Voice is able to save three nominated people of the FIR under Number 127/13 U/S 302 PPC, because there is every apprehension that if we hand over the people to the police they will be killed.
Please pray for the Christians and their families so that God may keep them protected.
Update on Chak 30/10-R. MianChannu, khanewal:

An incident that occured almost one month ago, i.e. 26th April 2013, in which the Christian Community of MianChannu once again came under severe threats like they were once in 1990’s in Shanti Nagar Incidence when the whole village was burnt down and the Christians were killed as well. Shanti nagar is not very far from this Chak and the community residing there has their roots in Shanti nagar. Today was the final hearing on the bails of the Murder case. The Voice team stood there for almost three weeks and participated in all the investigation from the Investigating officer up to Inspector General of Punjab. By the grace of God, and with the efforts of The Voice team today the nominated persons of the FIR named Asharyaqoob and AsifKaleem were released by the court as they were innocent and the rest of the two named Albert and Samuel were also released by the Police, only Kamran is held guilty for Murder although in self-defense. We hope that he will also be released by the court in the trial.
I, on the behalf of my whole team of the Voice want to give thanks to all of the friends like you who have kept us in your prayers and supported us morally and spiritually. It is with your prayers and trust on us that we are succeeded in all our efforts and the Lord, God have blessed us with success, and hope for the people that God have someone to help them and protect them. Thank you all for your precious support. Your trust in us is a great source of inspiration and confidence for us. God Bless you and God bless The Voice team.