"Samantha's" Family Suffering Under Pakistani Blasphemy Laws


"Samantha" is a beautiful young woman living in a poor village with her elderly mother and two children, age three & five.  This Christian family was once a happy family living in the Pakistani city of Sialkot, but one argument with a Muslim colleague in July of 2015 destroyed everything.  What began as an innocent discussion about their respective faiths between "Samantha's" husband and a Muslim friend quickly spiraled into an inconceivable disaster.  The family's Muslim friend accused "Samantha's" husband of blasphemy and within days her husband lost not only his job, but his freedom.  Within days of this unfair accusation, the police arrived and arrested "Samantha's" husband.  He was taken to prison, where he has remained for over two years.  


Soon after her husband was taken away, "Samantha" and her children began receiving death threats from radical Muslims.  Forced to flee her home in the middle of the night, she was aided by fellow Christians and taken to a remote village, where she is forced to work picking crops from the fields from a mere $1 a day.  To this day, her husband is still in jail, and with so little income, she is forced to rely on other Christians to provide her with food and other necessities to survive.  Her heartbroken children don't understand why their family must suffer so much, what their beloved father must remain in jail.  Right now "Samantha" just wants her husband back and better work in a safer place of the country where they can live in peace and send their eldest child to school.  Her job barely pays for her food.  In order to pay for her eldest child's schooling as well as the other necessities to survive, she relies completely on the goodwill of other Pakistani Christians.  Thus far, no organization in the world has offered any assistance to her family.  Despite all of this, "Samantha" still has faith that one day things will be better, but she believes that without a collective push from the entire Pakistani society, the blasphemy laws will not change and that the persecution will not end.  


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