Bishops in Pakistan have spoken of their dismay after the country’s Supreme Court quashed the sentences of three men convicted of killing a Christian man and his pregnant wife who were burnt to
Justice in Pakistan is the urgent demand of Church leaders after a Christian labourer was found hanged at a farm outbuilding, amid suspicions that he was tortured to death. The body of 22-year-old
The legal outcome shows a “positive and rare” development, since local courts are often reluctant to acquit those accused of blasphemy, due to social pressure. Two Christian nurses in Pakistan have been acquitted
Shagufta Kausar was sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy and spent over eight years in prison. She recently shared her story at the launching of the Religious Freedom in the World Report, in
Exactly two years on from an atrocity described as the worst outbreak of violence against Christians in Pakistan’s 78-year history, the local bishop of the district has said not one of the thousands
A report compiled by Franciscan Fr Lazar Aslam describes the plight of young girls and women who are subjected to rape, kidnapping and forced marriage in a country where the law rarely affords
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