[Catholic Culture] Two Pakistani Christians acquitted of blasphemy charges were murdered on July 19 as they left the courthouse.
A police officer who accompanied them was injured in the attack. Rashid Emmanuel and his brother, Sajid Emmanuel, had been arrested on July 4 after pamphlets critical of the Mohammed had been distributed. The brothers had grown up in a Catholic family; Rashid had recently become a Protestant pastor.
Following the murder of the brothers, some Christians took to the streets in grief and anger. "Emotional tension was high, there was some shouting, stone throwing against Muslim shops," said Father Khalid Rashid Asi, vicar general of the Diocese of Faisalabad, Pakistan's third largest city.
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