Authorities in Pakistan order 25,000 Christians to urgently leave their homes
Illustrative image: Christian families in Islamabad. Photo: open sources
On March 27, 2026, about 25,000 Christians in Islamabad, Pakistan, were ordered to urgently vacate their homes in various parts of the city, the inVictory portal reported.
Christian families living in the Rimsha, Allama Iqbal, and Akram Masih Gill neighborhoods were given only a few days to leave. At the same time, the authorities provided no clear plan for where they would be rehoused and did not explain where they were supposed to move after vacating their homes.
These Christians have lived in those areas for many years. A large number of Christian families were relocated there by the state after the Rimsha Masih case, when a Christian girl was falsely accused of blasphemy, triggering threats against the entire community. At that time, the authorities themselves moved Christians to safer districts, where people were able to settle, build homes, and rebuild their lives.
Now the authorities are demanding that those same Christians urgently leave these areas. Yet the Christian families have been offered neither alternative housing nor land plots nor any clear compensation, causing serious alarm and outrage among community representatives.
Christian leaders have already spoken out against the decision, and protests and prayer gatherings are taking place in different locations. Christians are calling on the authorities to halt the evictions and find a just solution. Amid the unfolding events, many Christian families are afraid to leave their homes even to go to work, fearing demolition, while children from Christian families have begun missing school, which is already negatively affecting their lives and education.
Earlier, the UOJ reported that Islamists in Nigeria killed a pastor of an evangelical church.
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