
Up to one million Christians in Pakistan are trapped in generational bonded labour, with American-led nonprofits paying off debts to free families from brick kiln slavery. The systematic targeting of Christians as second-class citizens in Pakistan is a stark marker of the global persecution of believers that Scripture warns will intensify in the last days. Jesus warned in Matthew 24:9 that his followers would be 'handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and hated by all nations' — a pattern accelerating worldwide as the age draws to a close.