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“As long as the BJP [Bharatiya Janata Party] remains in the government, Christians will face high levels of injustice and persecution.”

“The Prime Minister wants the RAA to formulate an intellectual response to blasphemous acts in the West. A perfect response would be to discourage people from taking the law into their own hands and to punish others without a fair trial.”

Christian and Hindu girls are particularly vulnerable, as they are targeted to be forcibly converted to Islam and have far less social and legal backing.

“The main challenge for Christians is education, otherwise they will not have the means to lift themselves out of poverty.”

“Such attacks on churches and minority communities illustrate that Pakistan has always been receptive to fundamentalism.”

“Now that the Taliban are back, it will strengthen Islamist groups and so there could be attacks.”

“we have witnessed an alarming increase in blasphemy accusations in the past few years, especially following the growth in the use of social media forums such as Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp.”

“They called me a churi (low caste), an abusive term reserved for sanitation workers, and said they refused to work under a Christian.”

“My classmates subjected me to constant discrimination and prejudice towards me and my family on account of our religion.”