LAHORE, Pakistan (CNS) — A Catholic Church center in Pakistan’s cosmopolitan eastern city of Lahore has been threatened with a suicide bomb attack, one of a series of intimidating messages given to Christians as the country’s security crisis worsens. The threat was delivered June 10 to a Christian woman who lives next to Rabita Manzil, National Catholic Center for Social Communications, reported the Asian church news agency UCA News.

The center includes the offices of the Workshop Audio Visual Education studio, Radio Veritas Asia’s Urdu service and the UCA News. The woman said two masked men arrived on a motorbike without license plates. “We know that you and those at the recording studio are Christians. We warn you to leave this area, embrace Islam, pay 1,500,000 rupees ($18,750) or be ready to die in a suicide bomb attack. Inform your neighbors as well,” she quoted the men as saying.

Christians have received similar threats in other parts of the country as fighting between government troops and Taliban militants continues.