The United States has put more pressure on Pakistan by adding it to its blacklist of countries who violate religious freedoms. Coming just weeks after the release of Asia Bibi, US secretary of state ...
The Catholic Archbishop of Lahore has paid tribute to a man who he claims saved thousands of lives during a suicide attack last weekend. At least 14 people were killed and 70 others injured in the at...
It has been claimed the security guards deployed to protect two churches in Pakistan were "busy watching cricket" when terrorists exploded bombs outside. At least 14 were killed and 70 others injured...
A bill which would have prevented Christians being forced to convert to Islam in a part of Pakistan has been rejected. The governor of the southern province of Sindh, Saeeduzzaman Siddiqi, refused th...
A militant extremist group is claiming responsibility for a deadly explosion in north-western Pakistan. Jamat-ul-Ahrar, an organisation linked to the Pakistani Taliban, said the suicide bombing in Ch...
There's hope among Pakistan's religious minorities that the country's first census in nearly 20 years will be a step towards greater political representation an Wilson Chowdhry from the British Pakis...
A senior Dominican in Pakistan has called for a United Nations investigation into the deaths of two Christians who were beaten by a mob of Muslims. Shama Bibi, who was four months pregnant, and her h...
Two years since a Christian couple were burnt to death in Pakistan, there still haven't been any convictions for their murders. Shama Masih, 24 and five months pregnant at the time, and her husband S...
It is understood police in Pakistan are investigating a shooting at a church in Lahore, as new photographs of the incident have emerged. Five shots were reportedly fired through the front door of St ...
The government of Pakistan is reportedly considering changes in the country's blasphemy laws, to guard against abuses and mob violence. According to Fides, the proposed changes would allow severe pun...
Pakistan's latest election results have left Christians in the country feeling afraid. Officials announced on Friday that the former cricket star Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party had...
A Christian man has been hanged in Pakistan, 23 years after being convicted of a double murder. Aftab Bahadur Masih's lawyer has said he was 15 at the time of sentencing, which would have meant he wa...
The Christian charities World Vision and Catholic Relief Services are among 18 organisations expelled from Pakistan. They had been accused of "deliberately spreading disinformation" and "non-complian...
An international Christian charity is worried that lawyers protecting Christian's rights in Pakistan are being deliberately targeted in attacks. Anti-persecution charity Christian Solidarity Wo...
The government in Pakistan has decided to leave strict blasphemy laws in the country unchanged. Pakistan's government has agreed to seven out of ten demands made by Mumtaz Qadri supporters, wh...
Pakistan's High Court of Appeal has rejected an appeal from mother-of-five Asia Bibi against her death sentence. At the High Court this morning, before the bench of Mr Justice Anwar Ul Haq and M...
A Pakistani prosecutor who said he can "guarantee the acquittal" of 42 Christians charged with killing two men if they convert to Islam, has been suspended. Syeed Anees Shah will not be involved in a...
Forced conversions from one faith to another in a major Pakistan province have been banned. Sindh's provincial assembly voted to criminalise those who use force to make people change their religion.T...
Pakistani security forces were on high alert across the country on Monday, following a suicide attack on a church by the Islamic State group that killed nine pe The assault in Quetta, the capital of ...
The Pakistan Supreme Court has issued a suo moto notice over the killing of Christian couple Shama and Shahzad. It means local government officials will have to produce a report within three da...
