Sajid Masih, 24, was being held along with his cousin Patras Masih, 17, for a Facebook post that insulted the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Sajid, who is in hospital with critical injuries, said in a video recorded from his hospital bed that he was told to perform a sexual act on his cousin by police so jumped out of a window to get away.

Wilson Chowdhry, Chairman of the British Pakistani Christian Association (BPCA) told Premier the injured man desperately needs our prayers.

“There are fears that government agents… may cause something to happen within the hospital.

“We do need to pray for the man and for him to have a full recovery.”

The cousins have insisted someone else posted the offensive content when the teenager’s phone was stolen.

Hundreds of Christians in Pakistan fled their homes last week to escape riots in Lahore that erupted when locals became aware of the blasphemy allegations.

A protest will be taking place outside 10 Downing Street on Saturday calling for a full investigation into the attacks on the two men.

Listen to Wilson Chowdhry speaking to Premier’s Alex Williams:

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Speaking to Premier, he said: “I just pray that those people are able to find new employment, I hope that they finish well with their current employment.

“What we don’t need is getting into debt in between jobs… so I really pray that these people can transition from this current role into a new role.”

Grant has made The Entertainer boldly Christian by remaining closed on Sundays so staff can see their families. The toy chain also has Christian displays in its windows at Christmas.

Grant described how the UK’s high street habits have changed: “We used to go to a large grocer once a week, fill up a great big trolley full of stuff and bring a massive amount home – but I think that’s not happening so much now – I think we’re buying little, more often. And I think that’s probably the same with toys – I think people are not necessarily driving out of town to buy toys as they were in the 80s when Toys R Us first came to the UK… they’re buying more conveniently.”

Speaking of the 5,5000 risks to job between Toys R Us and Maplin, Grant explained: “I think people are the greatest casualty in all of this.

“A business goes down and that’s a business but behind the business they are the people. So Toys R Us’ announcements today I think it’s 3000 people roughly are going to lose their jobs – and that’s just a statistic…but those are 3000 real people, really paying their…

A church in Belfast has been forced to defend its upcoming event aimed at helping homosexual Christians.

Willowfield Parish Church on My Lady’s Road is set to host an Evangelical Alliance-led event next month to help people with same-sex attractions remain celibate and Christian.

An – for the course reads: “The Living Out Course is designed to help church leaders to understand how they can help those who experience same-sex attraction to stay faithful to biblical teaching and flourish at the same time.”

However, the church rector David McClay told the Belfast Telegraph that he and his family had been subjected to abusive phone calls, accused of wanting to run a “gay therapy course”.

“We have gay people in our congregation every Sunday. We have been totally misrepresented by what has been posted on social media,” he said.

He insisted next week’s event wouldn’t advocate so-called conversion therapy for gay people.

“Same-sex attracted people will be sharing their stories in order to help them become disciple-like and maintain living a celibate life,” he said. “It’s to help people of all ages who are seeking to be Christian.

“I understand that some people are angry because they have been given the wrong information. I totally refute that we are involved in conversion therapy, nor do the Evangelical Alliance ever run courses like that. The course is designed…

In an interview with Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield on ITV’s This Morning on Tuesday he said he was in hysterics.

When asked how challenging it was to tell his eight-year-old son about his mother’s death, Thomas said all he could do was scream.

He said: “I left the hospital… she died at 5:45pm on a Friday night and we left about an hour later. “And we came out of the hospital, I think I woke up every patient there because I just screamed.

“I’m a Christian. I’m a man of faith, I screamed to God ‘why, why have you left my boy without a mum?’” 

He added that when he arrived home and told his son, who was heartbroken. 

“All the way back [from the hospital] my heart was pounding,” Simon said. “He went in to see her twice that day… I held him to her ear a couple of times and he said that he loved her. 

“I looked into his deep brown eyes and I just said, Ethan, I’m really sorry, they couldn’t make mummy better. “You can’t dress it up and I just said ‘mummy’s died’.”I took him upstairs looked into his deep brown eyes, I just said they couldn’t make mummy better,” Thomas said. 

“He collapsed onto the floor, I collapsed, we were rolling on the floor and I just held him.” 

Thomas’ wife Gemma died in November after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of acute myeloid…