visited only to sell rosary beads and raise donations for poor villagers in rural Punjab.
But to the Catholic church in India's north-western state he was a rogue cleric who had absented himself from the diocese and acted as a lightning rod for dissent among Punjabi Christians.
Although the prie

According to one source the total population of Muslims in the entire world is claimed to be 1.70 Billion, another source puts it to 1.01 billion and another source counts 1.29 Billion. In North America the total number of Muslims is 6.6 Million. Out of which, 6 million in United States and .6 milli

Samina Faisal, who lives in Long Island, was released on a $250,000 bond after pleading not guilty in a federal court in Brooklyn. She and her lawyer declined to comment on the charge. A Federal Bureau of Investigation agent alleged in an arrest warrant affidavit that Faisal told an emergency dispat

and anguish at the brutal arrests and jailing of peaceful, law abiding Indian Christians in Riyadh. It has made an urgent appeal to the US Government including the Department of State, Congress and the White House to intervene with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for their release. Those arrested in th

, with some sources citing in excess of 100 Christians arrested. From last Friday through yesterday, Saudi authorities engaged in a major crackdown involving a joint effort of standard police forces and Muttawa religious police. In the last couple of days the raids have spread from the Capital, Riya

The surprise acquittal at a court in Hamid Pourmand's home town of Bandar-i Bushehr follows a series of hearings at an Islamic court in the capital Tehran in April, at which he had been repeatedly pressed to return to Islam.
Despite this acquittal, Pourmand, a former colonel in the Iranian army, r

in an attack likely to raise fears sectarian bloodshed could again break out in the region.
The explosions left a trail of blood and destruction in the lakeside town of Tentena, on the eastern island of Sulawesi,, part of an area where three years of Muslim-Christian clashes killed 2,000 people un

On 25th May Mr. Atta Ul Haq Qasmi, a columnist openly expressed his resentment that no Christian leader has condemned the "desecration" of Holy Koran as reported by the "News Week". However his attention was drawn to the CNI report in Urdu dated 12th May 2005 in which the CNI has not only condemned

LAGOS, May 25 (Reuters) - Nigeria has failed to prosecute those responsible for religious violence that killed 900 people in the oil-exporting country last year, a U.S.-based human rights group said on Wednesday.
In a report on two waves of killings by Christians and Muslims in central and northern

Ecumenism is comparatively a new word for most of us. Many people have never even heard the word. In today's fast moving world, it is important to have knowledge about international issues, concerning human lives and dignity. Ecumenism is one of the issues that have affected our lives in one way or

The Brenton Carey Girls Hostel is serving from decades to help educate poor Christian girls from far-flung areas of Sindh province and located in heart of Karachi metropolitan vicinity. Mrs. Ghazala Shafique has been serving as administrator of this institution from years and helping poor Christian

Shahbaz’s family members went to the location and found the boy alive. They took him to hospital, where he recorded a statement with his family and church authorities. According to the preliminary inquiry by the church, both of Shahbaz’s legs were broken because he refused to recite the

Background:

The Dogars of the area had been demanding the Christians to handover the land to them that was allotted to the Christians by their forefathers before partition. The Christians of the area had built their houses on this 16 Kanal land and some part of it was used as their graveyard that

Killed was Arshad Masih, a young husband andfather of a one-year-old daughter.According to reports received a Muslim family who had long been opponents of the congregation entered the church property at about 10:00 a.m. as the congregation was worshipping and began shooting. Some reports indicate th

Two weeks after the death, cardinals will enter a solemnly secret conclave in the Sistine Chapel, under Michelangelo's awesome fresco of the Last Judgment, to elect the 262nd successor to the apostle Peter.

Although the pontiff is the universal leader of more than a billion Catholics, the electi