On March 2, gunmen unleashed 50 rounds of bullets into Shahbaz Bhatti, the Pakistani Minister of Minority Affairs. A Roman Catholic and the only Christian in the Pakistani Cabinet, Bhatti was assassinated by the Taliban and al Qaeda because of his opposition to Pakistan’s arbitrary and egregious blasphemy law. The U.S. Government’s response regarding this tragedy: an impotent statement expressing “sadness and condemnation.”
On Jan. 1, more than 20 Coptic Christians in Egypt were executed when unknown offenders bombed a church in Alexandria.
On Oct. 31, 58 Iraqi Christians were killed and 78 were left wounded after a group of alleged al Qaeda linked radicals took control of a church in Baghdad during evening mass.
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Tags: Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook, international religious freedom ambassador, religious freedom, religious liberty
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