Faisalabad, July 31, 2020: A Christian mother in Pakistan has achieved a significant breakthrough in her struggle to win back her abducted 14-year-old daughter amid reports that she was being groomed to enter the sex industry. Hearings have been scheduled for August first week at Lahore High Court in theContinue Reading
By Massimiliano Tubani and John Newton Königstein (Germany), July 11, 2020: A kidnapped Christian girl in Pakistan has phoned her parents to say she is pregnant after being raped by her abductor, who has imprisoned her in one room of his house. Tabassum Yousaf, the lawyer fighting for the freedomContinue Reading
Islamabad, July 2, 2020: A few religious factions on July 1 denounced the government’s move of building temple in Islamabad and termed it against Pakistan’s ideology. The religious parties also announced that they would take up the issue in the Federal Shariat Court. In a joint press conference in Islamabad,Continue Reading
June 19, 2020: The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has issued a report recommending a “binding agreement” between the United States and Pakistan, with the goal of encouraging Pakistan to improve its treatment of religious minorities. Laws against blasphemy in Muslim-majority Pakistan have led to death sentences forContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Chiang Mai, Nov. 1, 2018: The Christian Conference of Asia (CCA) has lauded Pakistan’s Supreme Court for acquitting Asia Bibi, convicted and sentenced to death in 2010 on charges of committing blasphemy. The apex court overturned the death sentence on October 31 in a historic ruling.Continue Reading
Bishop Samuel served as the general secretary of the for five yearsContinue Reading
Archbishop Coutts of Karachi is scheduled to become a cardinal at a June 28 consistory at the VaticanContinue Reading
Karachi: Two more Christian sewerage workers have died in Pakistan while opening a clogged sewerage line without protective gear. The incident occurred on May 23 at Bahawalnagar in Punjab district. In January, a Christian man died in Karachi when he was cleaning a gutter. Data collected by World Watch MonitorContinue Reading
Asia Bibi had called on Christians to pray and fast with her on April 27, after hearing her death sentence appeal would re-open in Pakistan’s Supreme Court.Continue Reading
At least two people were killed and five others wounded when unidentified men opened fire on worshippers exiting a church after the Sunday service in Quetta on April 15. The bike-borne assailants targeted the church in Essa Nagri area of the city, Express Tribune reported. Two people were killed inContinue Reading
