LAHORE: March 11, 2008. Two suicide car bombers killed at least 26 people and partly demolished a key police building in Lahore Tuesday, deepening the security crisis facing Pakistan`s incoming civilian government.
Another 175 people were wounded in the massive attacks, which came just minutes and

Multan: March 9th (ROD): 'Rays of Development Organization' (ROD) along with other major rights organizations, local church and some Para Church Organizations sternly condemned the death sentence meted out to a Christian janitor Zahid Masih (Case # 112, Dated 2-3-2005, under offence of Section 302

Iran: March 10, 2008. Two sisters – identified only as Zohreh and Azar – have been convicted of adultery in Iran. They have now been sentenced to be stoned to death.
Adultery is a crime punishable by death in the Islamic Republic of Iran, in accordance with the canons of Islamic Sharia law. Th

Islamabad: March 5, 2008. Caretaker Law Minister Syed Afzal Haider has conceded that the system of allocation of 'minorities' seats in parliament is 'undemocratic', and advised the Pakistan Human party (PHRP) to approach National Assembly (NA) members –elect to amend the constitution in this reg

Barak Human Rights Protection Committee(BHRPC), a human rights group working mainly in southern part of Assam known as Barak Valley, is deeply concerned at the arrest of Lachit Bordoloi, Advisor to the Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti (MASS), Pradeep Gogoi, the Duliajan correspondent of NETV, Nekibur Z

ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: The Election Monitoring Secretariat of the Centre for Media and Democracy (CMD) Pakistan in its preliminary release congratulates the Pakistani nation on completion of the electoral process in a peaceful manner keeping in view the law and order situation of the country. Though the

Holland: February 9, 2008. Archbishop of Canterbury shall apologies to Christian around world, especially to Christian living in Muslim Countries on his comments to award Sharia laws to UK Muslims.
"Why Dr Rowan William not demanded rights of Hindus, Jews, Sikhs and Buddhists? Why have special sy

ISLAMABAD: February 2, 2008. To mark the "Aitzaz Ahsan Day" as decided by the civil society organizations the other day the Convener World Minorities Alliance J.Salik took out a rally in the heart of the capital today.
The participants of the rally including women and children especially those fro

Marr Balochaan, Pakistan, Jan 27th (ROD): A Christian youth Francis Nadeem 15, son of Sadeeq Masih is believed to be kidnapped and allegedly sold for illegal human organ extraction and transplantation, here at Marr Balochaan, a village near Nankanna District of Punjab Province in Pakistan. Where a

Mumbai: January 26, 2008. (AsiaNews) - Our founding Fathers had enshrined religious freedom in our constitution making India a Sovereign Democratic Republic. It a matter of great disappointment that certain fringe elements unleashed a wave of violence against the Christians in Orissa.
I am deeply

The Taliban-style intimidation of Afghan newspapers came to the surface after a journalist was sentenced to death for distributing an article deemed to have "insulted Islam".
Sayed Parwez Kaambakhsh`s crime was to have passed around a piece taken from a website questioning why Muslim women cannot

Dhamtaree: January 17, 2008. After Orissa, there are now reports of another attack on Christians. The latest one took place in Dhamtaree district of Chattisgarh.
Workers from a Hindu organisation going by the name of Dharamsena attacked a health camp being conducted by christian missionaries.
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Rome, Jan. 7, 2008 (CWNews.com) - In a year-end account of missionary deaths, the Fides news service has named 21 Church workers who died for the faith in 2007.
The Fides report lists the priests, religious, and seminarians who were killed during the year. The report notes that the number is sligh

BHUBANESWAR: January 7, 2008. At least seven teenage girls were missing in eastern India where Christian-Hindu violence left over 9 dead and more than 60 churches damaged, a state government official said Sunday.
Enlarge this picture7 female Christian students missing in violence-hit Orissa, says o

DHAKA: (ANS) -- Bangladeshi Christians have condemned the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, the first woman elected to lead an Islamic state.
A story on UCA News (www.ucanews.com) reported that on Dec. 31, a five-member team representing Catholic and Protestant commu