Freedom at Last: Asia Bibi Heading to Canada to Join Daughters; Pray for Her Continued Safety

Calvin Freiburger : Jan 30, 2019
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"I am really grateful to everybody. Now after nine years it is confirmed that I am free and I will be going to hug my daughters." -Asia Bibi

(Pakistan)— [Lifesitenews.com] The Supreme Court of Pakistan has rejected a challenge to its acquittal of Asia Bibi on blasphemy charges, ensuring the Christian mother can finally join her daughters in Canada. (Photo: Asia Bibi/via Rome Reports)

In 2009, the farm worker and mother of five from the small town of Itan Wali was arrested for blasphemy over an argument with some Muslim co-workers who allegedly claimed they couldn't drink from a cup she had touched, as her Christian faith contaminated it. She was accused of making offensive comments about the prophet Muhammad in the ensuing argument, in response to claims she should convert to Islam.

Bibi was subsequently beaten and allegedly raped at her home, during which her attackers coerced a blasphemy confession out of her. She was convicted in 2010 and sentenced to death by hanging. The case quickly garnered international attention, with groups such as the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) fighting on her behalf.

In October, the Supreme Court of Pakistan overturned Bibi's conviction and authorized her immediate release. "Blasphemy is a serious offence but the insult of the appellant's religion and religious sensibilities by the complainant party and then mixing truth with falsehood in the name of the holy prophet Muhammad ... was also not short of being blasphemous," Judge Asif Saeed Khan Khosa wrote... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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