Catholic Man with Dementia Dies in Pakistani Custody on Blasphemy Charges

Amir Peter, a 61-year-old Catholic man suffering from advanced dementia, died on July 1 in a Lahore prison while awaiting trial on blasphemy charges he was mentally unfit to face, becoming the latest Christian to die under Pakistan's widely abused blasphemy laws. His death is a stark marker of the accelerating global persecution of Christians that Scripture warns will intensify in the last days, with 812 people imprisoned on blasphemy charges in Punjab alone in 2025. Jesus warned His followers directly: 'You will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me' (Matthew 24:9).