Lahore: January 28, 2014 (Fr. Inayat Bernard) “It is a joyous evening when the faithful from different churches come together to pray for the Christian unity”. Archbishop Sebastian Francis Shaw OFM of Lahore was talking to over 200 interdenominational gathering at the Cathedral of the Resurrection o

Lahore: January 28, 2014. (Pervez Yousaf) 26th January 2014: Following the Octave of Ecumenical Unity 2014, a day of prayer for unity among the mainline Churches of Pakistan was observed in St. Mary’s Church Gulberg, Lahore. Parish priest Rev. Fr. William Basharat OFM Cap was the celebrant of this

Glasgow: January 28, 2014. (PCP) A Scottish human rights organisation, Global Minorities Alliance, has expressed grave concern about the most recent events in context of Pakistan’s controversial Blasphemy Laws.
Muhammad Ashgar, a 65 year old British national of Pakistani origin, has been sentenced

JAMSHORO: January 25, 2014. (Imam Ali Bhalai) The Department of Pediatrics Liaquat University of Medical & Health Science Jamshoro in collaboration with WHO, UNICEF, MNCH Sindh organized a “Child Health Symposium” with the theme “Protect and Save the Children” on Saturday the 25th January 2014 at Hy

Lahore: January 25, 2014. (Fr.Inayat Bernard) 20th January 2014: During the week of prayer for Ecumenical Unity, Ecumenical Solidarity Committee and Council for Interfaith Dialogue organized a one day seminar for Church Leaders in the auditorium of United Christian Hospital Lahore. More than 100 c

India; January 25, 2014. (CNS) Over 17 million children in Bihar were targeted for deworming treatment using Albendazole, on 23rd January 2014. Albendazole is drug recommended by the World Health Organization to combat parasitic worms, and has been safely used to treat hundreds of millions of childr

Glasgow: January 25, 2014. (PCP) A Scotland-based human rights organisation is calling on the international community to intervene in what is being called the ‘silent genocide’ of the Burmese Rohingya Muslims, who the United Nations has called the most persecuted minority group in the world.
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Islamabad: January 24, 2014. (PCP) Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed, Chairman of the Senate sub-Committee on Environmental Degradation of Islamabad convened the first ever Public Hearing in the history of parliament on environment at Parliament House today. The Public Hearing was very well attended b

Columbus, Ohio: January 24, 2014. (PCP) The World Sikh Council - America Region (WSC-AR) is encouraged by the decision of the US Military in easing of the regulations governing turbans, beards, and religious articles by considering members of the Sikh and other Faiths who had been adversely impacted

Karachi: January 24, 2014. (PCP) Dr. Nazir S Bhatti, President of Pakistan Christian Congress PCC have strongly condemned target killing of Sardar Bagwan Singh in KPK province of Pakistan.
The Sikh elderly person named Sardar Bagwan Singh who was Hakeem by profession from decades was gunned down on

Charsada; January 24, 2014. (PCP) A Sikh community member resident of Dabgari was gunned down in Tangi Bazar, Charsada, in broad day light in KPK province of Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan, on evening of January 22, 2014, by Islamic extremists.
Sardar Bagwan Singh who was Hakeem by profession and

Glasgow: January 22, 2014. (PCP) A UK-based human rights organisation is calling on the authorities in Pakistan to release a 72-year-old doctor who was arrested for ‘posing as a Muslim’ after being secretly filmed by a patient at his surgery.
Global Minorities Alliance, a Glasgow-based human rights

Islamabad: January 20, 2014. (PCP) federal minister for Population Welfare, Convener Overseas Assembly Pakistan and Nominee for Nobel Peace Prize Dr. J Salik visited Jamila Sultana Foundation (JSF) Thalassaemia Centre on 20 January 2014. JSF was established in 2004 and since then it is providing FRE

Lahore: January 20, 2014. (Fr. Inayat Bernard) 18th January, 2014: Our Christian unity should have the tangible expression in our day today life besides the worship, seminars or gatherings”. Church of Pakistan Bishop Manu Romal Shah emiratus Bishop of Peshawar was talking to around 200 pastors, sist

Islamabad: January 20, 2014. (PCP) A historic bill was moved in the Senate of Pakistan today to protect the rights of domestic workers. The Domestic Workers (Employment Rights) Bill 2013 envisions legal protection for “domestic workers” resident in private households, such as cooks, drivers and mai