Lahore June 1, 2007. (AsiaNews) – Lahore district court yesterday condemned to death Younis Masih, a Christian accused of blasphemy. The judges also condemned to man to pay a fine amounting to 100 thousand Rupees. Defence lawyers denounce a lack of evidence and accuse police of negligence for no

There are fifty Christian student nurses and three hundred Muslim students in this institute who were sharing cordial relations before threats of Islamic laws by clerics of Lal Masjid in capital city of Pakistan.
Lal Masjid Imams and adjacent Islamic seminary students have challenged writ of gover

Lahore: May 30, 2007. (Report by Pastor Azam Peter) The more reports have been surfaced of gang rape of Christian girl in Muslim graveyard in Lahore. According to information's, the name of Christian victim is Miss Lunba, a 20 years old, who was in love with Nasir Masih (Mochaha) who is 21 years of

and directed a Muslim Convert woman to contact Sharia Courts to decide her appeal to remove Islam from her identity card.
Malaysia is Muslim majority country and Sharia laws deal with their personnel laws but Hindu, Buddhist and Christian minorities are dealt with Civil laws.
Ms Lina Joy who was A

The rally, called "Stop Violence On Christians", was organized after two recently televised attacks on Christians and an increase of anti-Christian incidents in the first few months of 2007.
The rally started at 10am at Jantar Mantar near the Parliament in New Delhi. Rally organizers had expected

According to information's Mochah Masih was passing by the graveyard with her fiancé when four drunken Muslims threatened them and hold up on gunpoint. They ordered Mochah Masih to run away and handover her future wife to them.
On refusal of Mochah Masih, four Muslims dragged both of them inside

The Pope underscored this element of his recent trip in his address to over 40 thousand pilgrims and visitors gathered in St Peter's square for his general audience. An evangelizing journey which, in the Pope's own words, must be undertaken in the light of the "theological and social" aspects of a

Mohammad Asif added some medicine in tea of Sumera and her mother to make them unconscious and then took teenage girl in fields and raped her.
This incident of sexual assault happened in Nazam Pura Chack number 2, Sub-District Chuniyah of District Kasur in Punjab province of Pakistan.
Sumera belon

Samanabad is posh residential area in Lahore city where property value has boomed in recent years and house where Walter Fazal resides is also estimated in millions. It is reported that Fazal has turned down offers of many real estate builders to sell his property.
On May 9, Muslim servant Riaz Moh

Samanabad is posh residential area in Lahore city where property value has boomed in recent years and house where Walter Fazal resides is also estimated in millions. It is reported that Fazal has turned down offers of many real estate builders to sell his property.
On May 9, Muslim servant Riaz Moh

New Delhi, SVM News, May 18, 2007: Neiphiu Rio, Chief Minister of Nagaland State in India said that the so-called freedom of religion bills are basically directed against Christianity, having been used to prevent conversion to this religion, and to harass Christian missionaries, who have renderd

The claims made in press conference by some Christian leaders "That instead of this threat, Christians shall remain in Charsadda" seemed less to satisfy feared Christian families of this remote town bordering tribal belt of Waziristan.
About 50 to 60 Christian families settled here and mostly enga

NWFP is border province to Afghanistan and touches boundaries with tribal belt of Waziristan. The remote town of Charsadda came in world limelight few weeks back when suicide attack killed dozens of participants of a rally addressed by Home Minister of Pakistan.
The threatening letter copies were

Seven people arrested earlier in the case had admitted that the brutal attack was carried out at Virendra`s behest.
Virendra, stated to be the mastermind behind the attack, is VHP`s Organising Secretary for Jaipur city. He is also an employee of the Employees` State Insurance (ESI) Hospital, from

Naturally the pope and Khatami also discussed the Middle East and the problem of Christians in the region and particularly in Iran. "Regarding the Middle East, - reads a Holy See press office statement – the need for strong initiatives by the international community to set up serious negotiations