Asia Bibi, in a Pakistan prison, has been seen in poor health. Bibi is grateful for prayers and calls for help and support, that she may soon return to embrace her husband and daughters. Despite the suffering, Asia has forgiven her captors and wonders how many more Christian victims will fall beneath the specter of Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Pakistan’
Catholics organize protest against NATO strikes that killed Pakistanis
Friday, December 9th, 2011The Catholic Church’s justice and peace commission organized a protest condemning a NATO airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.
The Asian church news agency UCA News said that, holding pro-army banners and national flags, more than 50 protesters from several Catholic institutions gathered outside the press club in Karachi Dec. 2. They shouted slogans, prayed and lit candles for the “faithful martyrs.”
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Jesus Christ no longer on Pakistani ‘black list’
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
“Jesus Christ” can be used again in txt message in Pakistan after the Church, politicians and a digital media group combined their efforts to influence the decision to ban the words. The Pakistan government withdrew the name of Jesus Christ from a list of censored words compiled on a ‘black list,’ that it identified as obscene, Read more
False blasphemy charges force Bishop and Pastor to leave Pakistan
Friday, November 18th, 2011The Protestant Bishop and Pastor were forced to flee abroad, because they were victims of false accusations of blasphemy and threatened with death by Islamic radicals, as well as leaders of an organization funded by the Pakistani government.
The LEAD, reports the President to Fides, “has organized the expatriation of the two leaders, in danger of life, and today is providing to ensure a safe haven for their families”.
“It is a very sad story and a symbol of the persecution that Christians suffer in the name of the blasphemy law”, explains Gill to Fides, as “the Bishop is a well-known personality and very involved in interfaith dialogue and in peace at national and provincial level in Punjab”.
Read the article...340,000 and counting sign up for WYD 2011
Friday, May 13th, 2011
With less than 100 days before World Youth Day (WYD) 2011 begins, more than 340,000 young people from 170 countries have registered to attend. Yago de la Cierva, Executive Director of WYD 2011 said the main objective of World Youth Day is for “youth receive a warm welcome in Madrid and spend some unforgettable days Read more
Bin Laden’s death not a cause for celebration
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
The Vatican said the killing of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, a man who sowed division and hatred and who caused “innumerable” deaths, should prompt serious reflection about one’s responsibility before God, not rejoicing. The Vatican statement May 2 came the day after President Barack Obama announced that U.S. forces had killed bin Laden in Read more
A truly Islamic state would protect Christians
Thursday, March 10th, 2011“It is heartbreaking to see Pakistan’s founding principles betrayed by its blasphemy laws” In the history of some countries there comes a period when political and factional murder becomes almost routine — Russia at the beginning of the 20th century, Germany and its neighbours in the early 1930s. It has invariably been the precursor of Read more