Source: Morning Star News, October 28, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A 22-year-old Christian man in Pakistan has won a seven-month legal battle to have his religious designation corrected on his national identity card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Attorney Lazar Allah Rakha said that [Rahul] Masih\u2019s original identity card, issued in June 2022, carried his correct name and faith, but that when he applied for a duplicate card after losing the original, NADRA issued him one stating his name as Sufyan Ali and his religion as Islam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMasih made repeated visits to the NADRA office, but his pleas to rectify the mistake were not entertained,\u201d Rakha told Morning Star News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Catholic working in an office of a private housing society, Masih had no option but to seek the court\u2019s intervention in the issue with the support of legal advocacy organization ADF International, Rakha said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the court proceedings, NADRA representatives claimed that Masih had willfully converted to Islam and registered himself as a Muslim, though they failed to substantiate their claim with documentary evidence, Rakha said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNoting that the defendants had failed to discredit Masih\u2019s stance, the judge ordered NADRA to issue him his national identity card as per his correct name and religion,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the proceedings, Masih presented his baptism and school certificates and also brought his Christian parents to testify about his faith, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For more on why this matters, read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also from Morning Star News, see Oppressed Christian in Pakistan Charged with Blasphemy<\/a>, which quotes the same Christian attorney\u2014a man who could also use our prayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Morning Star News, October 28, 2025 A 22-year-old Christian man in Pakistan has won a seven-month legal battle to have his religious designation corrected on his national identity card. Attorney Lazar Allah Rakha said that [Rahul] Masih\u2019s original identity card, issued in June 2022, carried his correct name and faith, but that when he … Continue reading Pakistan: Christian Wins Legal Battle Over National ID Card<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14250,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14249\/revisions\/14250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}