Just a week after the Florida school shooting where 17 people died, hundreds of people bought AR-15 rifles to the building of the World Peace and Unification Sanctuary to renew wedding vows in a ‘Perfection Level’ blessing. 

The Unification Sanctuary group was founded on claims that the current pastor’s father, Rev Sun Myung Moon, had an encounter with Jesus at the age of 15. They now refer to Rev Moon as ‘True Father’. 

This event was pre-planned and featured members wearing crowns with bullets in, women in white and men in suits who told reporters that rifles were “just a form of protection” and that is was a “loving” and “peaceful” ceremony.

Advertising the event on their website, the group wrote: “Blessed couples are requested to bring the accouterments of the nation of Cheon Il Guk, crowns representing the sovereignty of Kings and Queens, and a “rod of iron,” designated by the Second King as an AR15 semiautomatic rifle or equivalents such as an AK semiautomatic rifle, representing both the intent and the ability to defend one’s family, community and “nation of Cheon Il Guk.” 

Guests are also informed though that if they cannot “purchase and legally transport such a “rod of iron” because of laws barring the purchase of such weapons, or other reasons, couples are invited to purchase a $700 gift certificate from a gun store, as evidence of their…

The protests were mainly prompted by the case of Sajid and Patras Masih who are thought to have been tortured by authorities. Patras was arrested, accused of posting blasphemous images on facebook. 

He is 17 years old says he lost his phone in these days and that someone else posted the comments. Him and his cousin Sajid were arrested and are said to have experienced abuse, causing Sajid to leap from a fourth floor window from which he survived. 

According to the British Pakistani Christian Association, slogans in Lahore were chanted which translate as; “Give justice to Sajjid and Patras Masih!”; “Wake up Government of Pakistan!”; “Give equal rights to Pakistani Christians!”; “Pakistani Christians should be counted as equal citizens!”; and “We want a fair investigation for our brother Sajjid, What was the fault of Sajjid?” 

Wilson Chowdhry, Chairman of the British Pakistani Christian Association, said: “When I read accounts of horrific persecution in Pakistan, I am never surprised. Pakistan’s human rights record registers amongst the lowest performers in the world, largely because the Government of Pakistan is apathetic and religiously intolerant despite their rhetoric.
“Sajid and Patras were born social pariah’s for no other reason then their Christian faith which is legal but undermined through law and Government policy.”

There were also protests for the same…