Lahore: March 7, 2019. (Haroon Gill) All Pakistan Interreligious Leaders Conference took place at St. Mary’ Hall at Gulberg, Lahore under the topic of “Encounter of St. Francis and Sultan and Interreligious Dialogue Today” His Grace Archbishop Sebastian Francis Shaw, the Chairma

Lahore: March 6, 2019. (Haroon Gill) A Franciscan Symposium was held at St. Mary’s Gulberg, Lahore on Feb. 28, 2019 on the topic of “Encounter of St. Francis of Assisi and Sultan and Our Role Today”.  The main resource person was Fr. Benedict Ayodi OFM Cap, Secretary &ndash

Lahore: March 6, 2019. (Haroon Gill) A Capuchin delegation led by Fr. Benedict Ayodi OFM Cap and Fr. Francis Nadeem OFM Cap visited a Muslim seminary Jammiah Bait-ul-Quran along with another Capuchin friars Fr. Shahzad Khokher OFM Cap and Fr. Lazar Aslam OMF Cap The director of the Muslim seminar

Lahore: March 6, 2019. (Haroon Gill) A seminar for teachers was organized in the St. Mary’s Hall Gulberg, Lahore where almost 200 teachers from different schools participated. Fr. Benedict Ayodi OFM Cap was the speaker of this seminar while Fr. Francis Nadeem OFM Cap the Custos of the Capuc

Karachi: March 6, 2019. (PCP) Muslim students in Karachi Pakistan attempted to murder their Christian classmate Haroon Ifran (15 yrs) when they descended on him in a brutal stabbing that left his kidney severed into two pieces.

The parents of students in question sought to immediately p

Bahawalpur: March 6, 2019. (PCP) A young girl barely in her teens, Sadaf Amir also known as Sadaf Masih (13 yrs), of Cholistan, Wichra Bangla, Bahawalpur was abducted on 6 February 2019 by influential Muslims Maqbool Hussain, Mubashir Hussain Baloch and Azhir Hussain Baloch.

Following t

Lahore: March 5, 2019. (Haroon Gill) A Christian delegation led by Fr. Francis Executive secretary National Commission for Interfaith Dialogue NCIDE and Fr. Benedict Ayodi OFM Cap Secertary Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation (JPIC) Rome, Italy along with Fr. Shahzad Khokher OFM Cap, Fr. Laz

London: March 5, 2019. (PCP) Security and intelligence professionals are questioning the good sense of allowing Islamic State defectors who ran away to marry jihadis and establish a Caliphate, and the UK Home Office is finally following suit.

“As we approach this admittedly extrem

Lahore: March 1, 2019. (Haroon Gill) Fr. Benedict Ayodi OFM Cap visited the three Capuchins schools located at Kot Lakhpat, Lahore accompanied by Rev. Fr. Francis Nadeem OFM Cap the Custos of the Capuchin in Pakistan and the Manager of the Capuchin Schools. The staff and students of Franciscan Bo

Lahore: March 1, 2019. (Haroon Gill) A Capuchin delegation led by Fr. Benedict Ayodi OFM Cap. and Fr. Francis Nadeem OFM Cap.  participated youth conference at University of Lahore Feb 28, 2019 where a good number of university faculty members and the students were present. ,

Fr. B

Lahore: February 27, 2019. (Haroon Gill) A delegation of Capuchin priests visited Gandha Singh Border between India and Pakistan in the context of present tension between the two countries.

The delegation was led by Rev. Fr. Benedict Ayodi OFM Cap. He is the secretary of Justice, Peace,

Lahore: February 27, 2019. (PCP) Rev. Br. Benedict Ayodi OFM Cap arrived in Lahore, Pakistan in the evening of Feb 25, 2019 on the invitation of Rev. Fr. Francis Nadeem OFM Cap the Castos of the Capuchins in Pakistan.

Rev. Br. Benedict Ayodi OFM Cap visited St. Mary’s School Gulbe

London: February 26, 2019. (PCP) A teenage Pakistani Christian girl has been kidnapped and forcibly converted to Islam.

Sadaf Masih 13, of Cholistan, Wichra Bangla, Bahawalpur was abducted February 6 by influential Muslims Maqbool Hussain, Mubashir Hussain Baloch and Azhir Hussain Baloc

Hyderabad: February 26, 2019. (PCP) Approved Rough Cost Estimate Rs. 70.38.500 (Seventy Lacs Thirty-Eight Thousand & Five Hundred) for Compound Wall of Graveyard, Ganju Takar Hyderabad with the Struggle and support of Advocate Sooba Bhatti and Community of Hyderabad

Government of Si

Australia: February 20, 2019. (PCP) A young Pakistani Christian woman (22) who lost her leg in a terrorist attack at a church in Peshawar in November 2013, when she was 17-years-old and came to Australian under humanitarian measures is 11 months away from attaining Australian citizenship. Though