A debate over the misuse of Pakistan's blasphemy law is set to begin next week. The law, which carries a death penalty for insulting anything related to Islam and the prophet Muhammad, is often used ...
A Christian human rights advocate in Pakistan has said "there was not enough preparation" by the government for a heat wave which has killed more than 800 peopl Cecil Chowdry, the Executive Director ...
The Foreign minister for Pakistan has suggested during a visit to Brussels that persecution of Christians in the country has been exaggerated. Just a few months after the release of Asia Bibi, ...
The Prime Minister of Pakistan says a Christian woman cleared of blasphemy five months ago will be free to leave the country "very soon". Imran Khan, the former international cricketer, claimed a "co...
The Trump administration has accused Pakistan of severe violations of religious freedom in a further sign of deteriorating relations. The State Department has announced it is placing the South Asian ...
Pakistan's Supreme Court has upheld the acquittal of Asia Bibi. The court decision means the Christian mother-of-five will be free to leave the country.The three-judge Supreme Court panel had "i...
Police in Pakistan have arrested 22 people and launched a case against a further 700 after a Muslim mob attacked a Christian town. A church was set ablaze and the group attempted to burn a Christian ...
A Christian campaign group is raising concerns as the killer of a Pakistani politician, who stood up for Christians, appeals his death sentence. In 2011 Mumtaz Qadri, pictured, was found guilty of ki...
The family of a 12-year-old Christian girl in Pakistan, who was found dead in a canal, claim she was murdered but police are refusing to investigate. Tania Gill had been dropped off at the Convent of...
A Christian shopkeeper has been arrested in Lahore and charged with blasphemy. According to the Pakistan Christian Post, Babu Shahbaz Masih was arrested after pages of the Qur'an were found scattered...
A court in Pakistan has jailed two Christians for six years on blasphemy charges and acquitted five others of the same offence. The pair were sentenced for allegedly 'instigating sectarian hatred and...
Pakistani churches have been threatened with closures if they fail to make their own security arrangements by the end of March. The Home department of the government of the Punjab province instructed...
Christian school children in Pakistan could soon be forced to learn the Quran if controversial education reforms get the go ahead, it is feared. The country's Ministry of Professional and Technical T...
An extremist Muslim group in Pakistan is demanding the immediate execution of a Christian woman on death row. Small groups from the Sunni Tehrik movement held demonstrations in different Pakistani ci...
At least 31 people, mostly Christians, have died in Pakistan after drinking homemade alcohol on Christmas Day. Police said the brew had made several people sick and more than 45 people had to b...
The family of a pastor who has been missing in Pakistan since Sunday fear that he may have been kidnapped. According to Release International, Pastor Judoon had been supporting a Christian accused of...
A Pakistani prosecutor has reportedly said he can "guarantee the acquittal" of 42 Christians charged with killing two men if they convert to Islam. The group of Christians have been charged with lync...
Hundreds of extreme Islamists angry at the hanging of a man who murdered a pro-Christian governor have ended their four day protest in the heart of Pakistan's c The group left hours after the governm...
Police in Pakistan have been accused of refusing to act on death threats made to a Christian family after one of the men eloped with a married Muslim woman. Thirteen members of the family in Lahore h...
The man found guilty of killing a former Pakistani governor who defended the rights of Christians has lost an appeal against his conviction. Salman Taseer was the Governor of Punjab when he was shot ...
