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Meet The Naseems

Rev. Altaf Naseem ("Al") graduated from an American college in Asia. He later traveled extensively in Asia and Europe. He accepted the Lord in 1971 while studying in Frankfurt, Germany. In 1976 he attended the Montreal Olympics Crusade. There the Lord called him into full time ministry.

He resigned his job as chief auditor in Germany and came to the USA. There he worked with the Internationals for a year and half.

Altaf, Eileen, Annan Naseem

He returned to Asia, and married Eileen, in 1984. They have one son, Annan, 16 years of age, who is the only Christian in his Moslem high school where, Bin Laden is worshipped as a hero. Please pray for his studies and security.

They are mainly stationed in Pak-is-tan. This part of Asia is 96% Moslem. Only a tiny 2% of this Asian nation makes up the suffering Christian community.

In the early 80s Altaf worked with the United Bible Society and was in charge of the production of literature. During these years he earned an additional degree in journalism.

In 1986 he went to the Philippines to work on his M. Div., which he completed in the shortest time ever accomplished in the history of this seminary. A record yet to be broken. In 1990 he was appointed to S. Korea as director of an international mission agency project. Having finished their assignment to train the Korean staff, Altaf and his family traveled to Australia to work in establishing the Asian fellowships.

In 1991 Altaf came to the USA for nearly a year of deputation, while his wife continued to pioneer the Asian fellowship in Brisbane, Australia.

At present Altaf and his wife are serving in South and central Asia as inter denominational missionaries. This includes Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and parts of central Asia. They are just next door to Afghanistan, where Qaeeda has prevailing influence.

They have a great burden for this continent where Christianity is greatly misunderstood as the faith of the colonial powers. His beloved wife presently studies extension courses, with an open theological seminary.

In this part of the world fundamentalism is on the rise especially after 9/11. Pray for their ministry in this very difficult context. Sectarian killings are rampant, some underground religious factions are well armed. Recently there have been attacks on Christian churches, school and hospitals. 30 were martyred in four separate attacks by grenades or shootings while scores are injured.

Minority report in this
Asian nation
             MUSLIM: 96%
             CHRISTIAN: 2%
                  -Protestant: 1%
             HINDU: 1.5%
             OTHER: 0.1%
                 -Animist: 20,000
                 -Parsee: 6,000
                 -Buddhist: 2,000

Source: Operation World

Recently President Mush-raff, banned some Islamic militant factions, Terrorists are blocking the foreign and local investors and ultimately its the poor man who suffers. These factions are gone underground. They are trained by Qae-eda, and carry out attacks on the Christian institutions.

Please pray for peace in Pak-istan, and for the President who is trying to eradicate the terrorism, from this society. May the peace of God rule in this region. Pray that we can live together in harmony.

                                       Thank you, and God bless you.

Altaf Naseem

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2/15/08

Muslims Seek Revenge Murder Christian Teenager After Settling Dispute

Amir Saleem, a 13-year-old Christian boy, was murdered by Attiq and

Sharjeel, Muslim neighbors from a village in Sheikhupura district, on January 11, 2008. Full Story.

For more general information please go to ICC's webpage on Pakistan.

2/10/08

Christian Youth "Kidnapped" for trying to marry Muslim woman.

The father of a Pakistani Christian continued to search for his son (Anneal) who

was allegedly kidnapped two weeks ago by suspected religious extremists, after attempting to marry a Muslim woman. Full Story.

For more general information please go to ICC's webpage on Pakistan.

01/23/08 Pakistan (ICC) Muslim Radicals Mistakenly Murder Brother of a Pakistani Christian Accused of Blasphemy

Islamic extremists have murdered a man after mistaking him for his brother, who had been accused of blasphemy against Islam. Simon Emmanuel was shot to death after his brother, who has been living in the United States, came home to visit his family. The police tried to cover up the! murder as a suicide. Full Story

For more general information please go to ICC's webpage on Pakistan.

Pakistani Taleban kidnap five Christians:

PESHAWAR: Suspected militants associated with Commander Baitullah Mahsud on Friday kidnapped five Christians in South Waziristan Agency (SWA), Pakistan's English Daily "The News" has reported.

The story quoted unnamed sources as telling "The News" by telephone from the troubled region that the armed militants stopped a vehicle, which was carrying passengers from Wana, headquarters of South Waziristan, (Northern Pakistan, the strong holds of Alqaeda) to D. I. Khan.

Among the passengers, five were Christians, whom the militants took into custody and drove them later towards an undisclosed location.

Local officials of the political administration confirmed the kidnapping and said no effort could be made for their release as the area where they were disembarked from a vehicle was a stronghold of Mahsud tribal militants, (in Afghanistan) it added.

On the other hand, militants affiliated with Baitullah Mahsud made the release of Christians conditional with the freeing of six prominent militants now in custody of law-enforcement agencies. (ANS)

Please pray for the release of these kidnapped Christians.

Altaf

Benazir Bhutto
Assassinated Dec. 27, 2007

Bhutto was the only Pakistani politician who had a soft corner in her heart for the (Christian) minority. May God be with her family and give them strength, at this very difficult time of grief .

This has brought us to the point that we can not keep the office of the ministry, in the house. The upper floor of the house is being used as office. According to the recent developments we have to move it away for security reasons. We feel that it should be done soon.

Benazir Bhutto
Assassinated Dec. 27, 2007

She wanted equal rights for the Christian minority

We have visited some places in the suburbs, that could be safe in the future during the street protests. Please pray for this immediate move, and lift it before the Lord that he takes us to the right location. We believe, that the Lord will provide the required finances needed to buy the property.

Pakistan, is 97% Moslem and there are only 2.5% Christian, under persecution.

BLASPHEMY ACT

typical hanging scaffold

Under this article (295--C) a Christian can falsely be sent to jail and ultimately hanged. Dozens of Christian are in jail at this time waiting for their fake trials.

This law is being misused to settle personal disputes. Any Moslem can accuse any Christian of (self claimed) derogatory remarks against their prophet Mo-ham-mad.

This way the whole town rises up in anger and beats up on the accused, even to death. This law has sent waves of insecurity among the Christian community. Recently a pastor was martyred while building a village church. The entire judicial system is in the hands of the Moslems, so justice is hard to come by. Several attempts to amend this law have failed.

Please PRAY for this black law to be undone. Praise God for Ayub Masih, who is just acquitted by the supreme court after 7 yrs in jail.

The bread and cup of the Lord’s Supper are clearly the two most ingenious symbols the world has ever known. These two symbols literally summarize the entire Christian life