LAHORE, Pakistan
November 20, 2023 (Morning Star News)
Christians in Lahore, Pakistan were shocked to learn on Saturday (Nov. 18) that a church elder confessed to setting fire to their worship structure after initially blaming it on a Muslim extremist group, sources said.
Police arrested church elder and treasurer Zubair Akhtar Khokhar after confronting him with video evidence from CCTV cameras of the fire set on Thursday (Nov. 16), said the Rev. Samuel Massey, pastor of Gulberg Presbyterian Church in Lahore.
“Zubair was taken into custody after footage retrieved from the church’s security cameras showed him entering and exiting the building at the time of the incident. No other person was seen entering the building after Zubair,” Pastor Massey told Morning Star News, saying the church leader sought to take his place as senior pastor. “Zubair also admitted that he had faked the threat letter from an Islamist group to scare me into quitting my position. When he failed to see the desired result, he decided to burn the church and pin the blame on the alleged Islamist outfit to show that the threat to my life was real.”
The fake letter, dated…
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