Christian professional boxer and politician Manny Pacquiao has reaffirmed his belief in capital punishment following the Pope declaring the death penalty unacce Speaking on radio station DWIZ in the ...
Bookmaker Paddy Power has erected a giant drive-thru confession box ahead of the Pope's visit to Ireland. It comes as a survey reveals more than a quarter of Irish people haven't attended confession ...
Police in eastern India have arrested a nun and another worker at a shelter run by Mother Teresa's charity for allegedly selling a baby. A couple claimed they paid 120,000 rupees (£1,330) to Anima I...
Two suspects linked to the abduction of four British missionaries in Nigeria last month have been detained, while a third died during a shoot-out with police. The pair was arrested in the southern ci...
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...
