Christians in Pakistan's volatile North West Frontier

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Pakistan Evangelical Pastor Killed Amid Growing Religious Tensions

Memorial +++ - Jan 31st, 2008

By BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos with Jawad Mazhar, BosNewsLife Special Correspondent reporting from Pakistan

PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in Pakistan's volatile North West Frontier Province (NWFP) faced new tensions Wednesday, January 30, amid reports that a Pakistani pastor has been shot and killed because of his involvement in evangelistic work.

Human rights investigators said Sajid William, 25, was shot dead by Muslim extremists in NWFP's capital Peshawar, near Afghanistan, where worked as an evangelist and office manager of relief organization “Shelter Now International.”

"He was reportedly killed when three bullets hit his chest while he was on his way from his office on an official vehicle," said rights group International Christian Concern (ICC) with Website www.persecution.org. "The killer then took William’s cell phone and called his family to tell them that he had murdered him."

It was the second loss for Sheter Now International. In April 2005, Babar Samson, another pastor and staff member of the group, was also murdered along with his driver by what rights watchers described as "religious extremists" in Peshawar. READ MUCH MORE