Pakistan Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, the cabinet’s only Christian minister, was gunned down by four assailants in broad daylight in the capital Islamabad. Shabaz had received death threats for urging reform of the blasphemy law. This law carries a death sentence for anyone who insults Islam. The Governor of Punjab, Salman Taser, was also killed by his own police guard who felt he was being blasphemous in opposing this unjust law.
 
The situation looks more grim as the extremist forces working in Pakistan are making it harder to oppose this law or propose any reform of this discriminatory law.  This law is a sword of death hanging over every Christian as any one out of animosity can accuse you of blasphemy. Before you can be taken to court to prove your innocence, they will kill you with help of extremist mobs. During trial or in prison, you can also be killed by the police assigned for your protection.
 
We as a prayer ministry need your prayer support as we have been mobilizing focused, strategic prayers on a nationwide scale to see this law changed. If the prayer tracts sent to churches to pray for this issue fall into the wrong hands, we can face trouble also.