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PAKISTAN: Two Christians Critically Wounded at Wedding
Two Pakistani Christians who were shot at a wedding on 26 December for refusing to convert to Islam are still receiving treatment at a hospital intensive care unit, but doctors are hopeful that they will recover. In low, barely audible voices, Imran Masih, 21, and Khushi Masih, 24, told Compass that two Muslims armed with AK-47s in Punjab Province’s Chak (village) 297-JB, in Toba Tek Singh district, shot them in their chests after they refused orders to recite the Islamic creed signifying conversion.
Soon after they arrived at the wedding, a group of armed Muslim youths surrounded them and began shooting into the air, as is customary at village weddings. They were not alarmed, they said, assuming the young Muslim men were simply celebrating joyfully. One of the Muslims ordered them to recite the Islamic profession of faith or be shot, and the two young men refused, reciting Psalm 91 instead. “Our decision infuriated them,” Imran Masih said, “and instead of shooting into the air they shot us, leaving us only after being convinced that we were dead.” Police have yet to arrest the suspects, who claim they shot the two Christians by accident.
Source: Compass Direct
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