Pakistan: 70 Killed, 300 wounded in Easter bombing
At least 70 people have been killed and more than 300 wounded in a suicide bombing targeting Christians celebrating Easter in Lahore, Pakistan.
At least 70 people have been killed and more than 300 wounded in a suicide bombing targeting Christians celebrating Easter in Lahore, Pakistan.
Pakistanis fleeing their country’s notorious blasphemy laws have been heading to Thailand for sanctuary.
This month a committee was formed in Faisalabad, Pakistan, to investigate any possible discrimination after a Christian was told that he could not work as the school’s waterman because of his faith.
Thousands of poor Pakistanis face the destruction of their temporary homes in Islamabad after a government agency announced last week that Christian migrant slums threatened the demographics of the city’s Muslim majority.
Pakistani police are deliberately downplaying any chance of arson after a suspicious fire damaged a Christian cable TV station in Karachi last week.
Christians leaders have petitioned Pakistan’s supreme court to end its discrimination against minorities in the nation’s educational system.
Pakistan’s Christian community has just commemorated the first anniversary of the murder of a Christian couple burned alive after falsely being accused of blasphemy.
This month, a school headmaster from Pakistan’s Christian minority in Phool Nagar was beaten by his Muslim colleagues after he was promoted ahead of them.
Last month, a Pakistani Christian and his family were forced to flee from a mob after he was accused of blasphemy by Muslims after an argument over tap water.
Although charges are still pending, a court in Pakistan has recently ordered the release of a Christian laborer falsely accused of blasphemy.
The president of Pakistan’s Christian Congress has urged Western nations to open its doors to persecuted Pakistani Christians.
A Christian mother sentenced to death in Pakistan for allegedly committing blasphemy will be given one last appeal by Pakistan’s court system to avoid execution.
An Islamist cleric was taken into custody Friday by Pakistani police for inciting a Muslim mob to harm a Christian couple for desecrating the Quran.
Pakistan intends to introduce new legislation to curb the misuse of that nation’s notorious blasphemy laws.
Hundreds of Muslims attacked an entire community of Christians Sunday night after a blasphemy accusation that one of the Christians had set fire to papers with Quranic verses on them.
Before he died on Wednesday, a Christian youth in Lahore, Pakistan, had told police that two Muslims on a motorbike had set him afire because of his faith.
A Christian missionary is critically wounded after being shot in the head in Karachi, Pakistan, in an apparent terrorist attack.
A Pakistani Christian boy who was set on fire by young Muslims after he professed his faith in Jesus Christ has died of his injuries.
As over 100 Pakistani Christians were arrested in mid-March following the lynching of two Muslim men wrongly thought to be involved in two earlier church bombings that killed 17, some 30 prisoners have been released and show clear signs of being abused and tortured by the police.
Pakistan’s Punjab Province has excluded Christians from a list of defendants who will have their blasphemy cases expedited for acquittal for lack of evidence, according to Morning Star News.