Tag: Pakistani Christians

New Apostolic church in Batth village, 80km away from Lahore, was targeted on January 6 after a new year celebration.

December 25 is also a holiday for Muslims, who celebrate the birth of the Prophet Muhammad. Bibi also acknowledged this, as she is being held captive for allegedly speaking against the holy figure of Islam.

Wilson Chowdhry of the BPCA told Premier the nature of the attack "expresses the animosity that is growing within Pakistan towards the Christian minority.

ASIA Bibi’s husband Ashiq Masih has campaigned to the president of Pakistan to save his wife from execution. Pakistani Christian Bibi was convicted of blasphemy in 2010 with a penalty of death.

JAWAD Qamar, regional police chief of Kot Radha Kishan said, “We have arrested 44 people, it was a local issue incited by the mullah of a local mosque. No particular sectarian group or religious outfit was behind the attack."

COMMANDED from mosque loudspeakers, a Muslim throng in Punjab Province killed a Christian couple today after a co-worker accused the pregnant wife of defiling...

POLICE have arrested the killer of a Pakistani Christian lawmaker who was shot dead in the troubled Balochistan province. Handry Masih, a member of the Balochistan assembly, was killed by his personal bodyguard in the suburbs of provincial capital Quetta on June 16.

AROUND 1,000 Christian and Hindu women in Pakistan are forcibly converted to Islam and married to Muslim men every year, says a report released by Movement for Solidarity and Peace (MSP) on April 7.

A court in eastern Pakistan has sentenced a Christian couple to death for sending a blasphemous text message insulting the Prophet Muhammad, their lawyer said on Saturday.

THE Students of St Mary’s Minor Seminary and Rector Father Inayat Bernard held a day of bible reading and fasting for the release of Asia Bibi in Multan Jail and Sawan Masih in Ichchra Central Jail.