Cheena also fled Pakistan: "My family said: you can get better"

Bibi Asia is certainly not the first Christian Pakistan to flee the country. Religious refugees in this country also live in the Netherlands. Like Cheena (not her real name): she was no longer safe in Pakistan and applied for asylum in the Netherlands

"I lived in Pakistan when a great conflict erupted between jihadists and Christians, "says Cheena. "One day, a village in my neighborhood, where mostly Christians lived, was set on fire by a fundamentalist group. It was a great misery and there were deaths. "

Cheena decided to help the victims with the other members of the church, but that was not appreciated by everyone. "I received phone calls and information from fundamentalists saying that I had to stop helping, otherwise they would do to me what they did to the villagers, such as rape or death." murder."

Finally, the threats became so serious. that his environment advised him to leave the country. "My father, my brother and the church said: better go, otherwise we will soon be in danger."