Islamabad: A Pakistani court has acquitted a Christian couple who have spent seven years on death row for alleged blasphemy, their lawyer says, in a case that rights groups have long singled out for fair trial issues. The Lahore High Court acquitted Shafqat Emmanuel and his wife Shagufta Masih afterContinue Reading
Karachi: A Christian nurse was reportedly tied up and tortured by a mob at a Pakistani hospital after a Muslim colleague falsely accused her of blasphemy. Tabitha Nazir Gill, 30, was attacked and beaten by staff at the Sobhraj Maternity Hospital in Karachi where she has worked for nine years,Continue Reading
Catholic bishops in the Philippines, concerned about an increase in violence and police reaction to crime, announced a day of prayer and penance on July 16 and three days of fasting, prayer and penance on July 17-19. The bishops said they wanted to “invoke God’s mercy and justice on thoseContinue Reading
Several Islamic clerics and a few Christian leaders held a press conference at a police station in Lahore, Pakistan, this evening (20 February) to send a message to at least 800 families to have fled a Christian neighbourhood in the city, after a 20-year-old Christian man was accused of posting blasphemous contentContinue Reading
He was arrested on the day of his son’s burialContinue Reading
The families fled November 3Continue Reading
Lahore: After spending more than three years in jail, a Christian accused of blasphemy, and facing the death penalty, was granted bail by the Supreme Court in Lahore on 1 Feb. Adnan Prince has been imprisoned in Lahore’s district jail since November 2013 after he was accused by a workContinue Reading
And Ruslan Sokolovsky, a 22-year-old from the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, risks a five-year jail term after being charged with offending religious believers and inciting hatred.Continue Reading
Lawyers representing a 16-year-old Pakistani Christian boy accused of blasphemy for ‘liking’ a photo posted on Facebook have reported being intimidated by the complainant’s supporters as they made their Appeal Court appearance on 3 October. Aneeqa Maria Anthony, head of the legal team representing the boy, Nabeel Masih, said sheContinue Reading
Lahore: Two Christians and a Muslim man were sentenced to death by a Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Tuesday, for committing blasphemy. The Anti-Terrorism Court of Gujranwala district announced the verdict in the case, which was pending for the last one year. ATC Gujranwala Judge Bushra Zaman handed down death penaltyContinue Reading
