TOPSHOT - View of a burnt church on the outskirts of Faisalabad on August 16, 2023, following an attack by Muslim men after a Christian family was accused of blasphemy. Hundreds of Muslim men set fire to four churches and vandalised a cemetery during a rampage in eastern Pakistan on August 16, officials said, after a Christian family was accused of blasphemy. (Photo by Ghazanfar MAJID / AFP) (Photo by GHAZANFAR MAJID/AFP via Getty Images)

Muslims Set Fire To 8 Christian Churches In Pakistan’s Punjab Province, Citing ‘Blasphemy’

According to government officials and local residents, a large mob of Muslim men vandalized eight churches and several homes following accusations of blasphemy against Islam in Pakistan’s most populous province of Punjab on Wednesday, escalating tensions between local majority Muslim and minority Christian communities.

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