Bhubaneswar, India: February 6, 2010. (PCP) Archbishop Raphael Cheenath, the senior Church leader of Orissa, said today that despite the claims of the state and district administrations, the human dignity, rights and life of the Christian victims of the 2008 violence remained far from normal. Fiftee

LARKANA: February 5, 2010. (Nazir Siyal reports for PCP) Kashmir Solidarity Day was celebrated in Larkana and other parts of Pakistan on Friday; the main function was arranged at Government Pilot Higher Secondary School Larkana, where the Leaders of Civil Society, Stakeholders, Scouts, NGOs and all

Karachi; February 5, 2010. (Sunny Gill reports for PCP) Karachi was rocked by two bomb explosions killing 25 and injuring more than hundred when Shia Muslims were observing religious procession in city. The bombs exploded on Shahra-e-Faisal and in front Jinnah Hospital within two hours.
The bomb b

Christians and other minorities in Pakistan continue to face enormous discrimination and persecution, and in extreme cases, but not rare cases, many Christians have been killed by either Muslim mobs or by state sanctioned policies. Therefore, the endless suffering and discrimination in Pakistan must

HYDERABAD: February 4, 2010. (Sameer Nazir for PCP) The District Coordination Officer (DCO) Hyderabad Aftab Ahmed Khatri has directed the monitoring teams for Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Youth Development Program (BBSYDP) to be more vigilant and ensure proper attendance/qualitative training and timely pa

LARKANA: February 4, 2010. (Nazir Siyal reports for PCP) Pakistan Peoples Party (Shaheed Bhutto) Chairperson Ghinwa Bhutto on eve of Yom-e-Kashmir on Thursday said that the Kashmiri people rendered unprecedented, sacrifices of their thousand lives during the struggle for the self determination, so t

Lahore; February 4, 2010. (PCP) Killer Mohammad Naeem Advocate was produced in Cantonment Court Lahore under tight security where Muslim lawyers were gathered in large number to support their former president of Lahore High Court Bar Association. The investigation officer Mohammad Asghar pleaded tha

Philadelphia: February 3, 2010. (PCP) Mr. George Murad, Chief Organizer of Pakistan Christian Congress PCC International Wing in a statement here today demanded justice for 12 years Christian Shazia Bashir, who was killed by Mohammad Naeem Advocate when working as housemaid in his home on January 22

Philadelphia, USA: February 3, 2010: Idress Massey passed away here today after fatal stroke; Mr. Massey was very popular among Christian social, religious and political circles.
Mr. Idress Massey was raised in Essa Nagri, Karachi and graduated from a local college. He settled in Queens, New York

Srinagar: February 3, 2010. (PCP) Senior Hurriyat Leader and Acting Chairman Jammu Kashmir Peoples League Mukhtar Ahmad Waza in a statement has appealed to the international human rights organizations to take cognizance of stepped up human rights violations by Indian troops in Kashmir. Waza said tha

Kandhamal-Bhubaneswar: February3, 2010. (PCP) All India Christian Council Secretary General Dr John Dayal, who is also a member of the National Integration Council, has expressed his deep distress and anguish at the hounding of and forcible evacuations
of Christian refugees living in shanties in G

India: February 3, 2010. (Cajetan Peter DSouza reports for PCP) The recent incident of the 27 year old Nooriya Haveliwala, where due to drunken driving should be considered seriously by the State Government, where young people get exposed to alcohol and drugs. In recent times many got exposed to alc

HYDERABAD: February 3, 2010. (Sameer Nazir for PCP) The District Coordination Officer (DCO) Hyderabad Aftab Ahmed Khatri has warned the officers of District Government Hyderabad to get their disputed electric bills reconciled with HESCO management by February 8, 2010 failing which disciplinary actio

We all worried when people killed, tortured and imprisoned in Pakistan in the name of blasphemy law. However, we have not been able to find the permanent solution.
I would like to share this column published in the daily “Dawn Newspaper Pakistan” on the 19 January, 2010. I found some interesting f

Cairo: February 3, 2010. (Mary AbdelmassihAINA) -- In an interview with BBC Arabic on January 31, 2010, Dr. Fathi Sourour, speaker of the People's Assembly (parliament) said that the Nag Hammadi shooting of Christians on Christmas Eve was a single criminal act, with no sectarian dimensions, prompted