Okara. Punjab: August 6, 2010. (PCP) “There can not be any Interfaith Dialogue until Blasphemy Law prevails in Pakistan” said Mr. Asif Joseph Kalyan, Chairman, Peace and Social Development Organization (PSDO) when conducting a One Day Seminar in Okara city on Peace and blasphemy law
The Chairman P

Sheikhupura, Pakistan: August 6, 2010. (PCP) On night of July 21, 2010, Muslims named Rashid Ali, Mann Mohammad son of Mohammad Boota with other unknown Muslims entered in house of one Christian named Ghafoor Masih and took hostages all family on gunpoint.
The Muslim culprits put pistol on head of

Washington DC: August 5, 2010. (PCP) Speaking at the PPC conference on August 2, 2010, Shaheryar Gill, attorney with the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), shared about the work ACLJ’s affiliate, European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ) is doing in Pakistan. Gill said that the ECLJ is pro

Faisalabad, Pakistan: August 4, 2010. (By Shafiq Sharif) Arooj-e-Mariam Catholic Church organized a 3-Day Training Workshop on “Capacity Building” at Centre for Peace and Harmony in Faisalabad from 30th July to 1st August 2010. Father Nisar Barkat (Director-NCJP), Peter Shahzad (Program Coordinator-

Philadelphia: August 4, 2010. (PCP) A historic conference of Pakistani American Christians in Pennsylvania was held in Philadelphia on July 31st 2010 which was attended by representatives of five different political groups as well as community/Church leader leaders for one point agenda of getting to

Lahore: August 4, 2010. (By Saima Francis) Caritas Pakistan Lahore organized workshop at St. Paul’s Church Shadbagh Parish. Fifty six women participated in the program from Shadbagh parish. Ms. Samia Francis (Coordinator Women Empowerment program) introduced CPL and Women Empowerment Program and sha

We are here today to remember the one hundred and thirty Pakistani Christians who were killed one year ago, but we are also not to forget the daily murders which take place in various other Muslim majority countries. The 1,400 year history of Islam demonstrating aggression against the non-Muslim cle

LARKANA: August 3, 2010. (Nazir Siyal) Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has identified that there are eighty (80) sensitive points from Sukkur barrage to Larkana-Khairpur bridge on the right bank and left bank and Ninty (90) sensitive points at Right bank were declared, there is dire need to

London: August 3, 2010. (PCP) The Christian Social Link UK, Secretary General Mr. Taskeen Khan have announced that Pakistani Christian Diaspora will mark “Black Day” nor “Minority Day” as declared by government of Pakistan.
The Christian Social link activists and other Pakistani Christian forums i

Washington DC: August 2, 2010. (PCP/Agencies) Pakistan Christian Congress PCC Conference was first ever successful gathering in a campaign to repeal blasphemy law in Pakistan when a Commissionor of United States Commission on International Religious Freedom and more than one dozen leaders of Inter

Sialkot: August 2, 2010: (PCP)The women wing of the National Council for Inter-faith Dialogue under the leadership of Fr. Francis Nadeem OFM Cap lit candles and offered prayers in memory of the victims of the plane crash at Margalla Hills, Islamabad.
Sr. Veronica FC said that the plane crash victi

Toba Tek Singh: August 2, 2010. (PCP) Thousands of Christians from Gojra and across the country marked first anniversary of Gojra violence. Most Rev. Bishop Joseph Coutts the Bishop of Catholic Diocese of Faisalabad offered Eucharistic Mass at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Gojra, Toba Tek Singh. Hea

Washington DC: August 2, 2010: (PCP) Pakistan Christian Congress Chief Dr. Nazir S Bhatti announced to observe “Black Day” instead of “Minority Day” announced by government of Pakistan on August 11, 2010, in Pakistan:
“How we can celebrate Minority Day in Pakistan when our innocent brothers are bei

Karachi: July 31, 2010. (PCP) In recent polls conducted by Pakistan Christian Post PCP, 99% of Pakistani Christians voted demanding resignation of Federal Minority Minister Shahbaz Bhatti on his failure to protect life and property of minorities in Pakistan.
9141 voted for his resignation while onl

The law commission declared a law panel to frame procedure for religious conversion and re-conversion. They cited the Kerala High Court’s reference while settling a marriage dissolution case (16th October, 2009)invited the attention of the Law Commission to frame procedure regarding conversion and