{"id":57595,"date":"2023-08-16T21:11:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T12:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/16\/churches-attacked-faisalabad-pakistan-blasphemy-claim"},"modified":"2023-08-16T22:38:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T13:38:40","slug":"mob-attacks-churches-in-eastern-pakistan-after-blasphemy-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57595","title":{"rendered":"Mob attacks churches in eastern Pakistan after blasphemy claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christian family accused of desecrating copy of Qur\u2019an, setting off rampage in Faisalabad<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of Muslim men have attacked a Christian community in eastern Pakistan, vandalising several churches and a cemetery and setting scores of houses on fire, after accusing its members of desecrating a copy of the Qur\u2019an.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people armed with sticks and rocks stormed a predominantly Christian area in Faisalabad on Wednesday. Images on social media showed smoke rising from church buildings and people setting fire to furniture.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/16\/churches-attacked-faisalabad-pakistan-blasphemy-claim\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian family accused of desecrating copy of Qur\u2019an, setting off rampage in FaisalabadHundreds of Muslim men have attacked a Christian community in eastern Pakistan, vandalising several churches and a cemetery and setting scores of houses on fire, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3898,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[370,447,60,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-islam","category-pakistan","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57615,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57595\/revisions\/57615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}