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 be tr...
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 ...
Pakistan's Interior Minister has said Islamic militants are planning another terrorist attack. Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan's warning came as Christians gathered for a prayer service to remember of a Tali...
A surge in under-age Christian and Hindu girls in Pakistan being kidnapped, raped and forced to marry and convert to Islam has been condemned by one of the coun In an interview with Catholic charity ...
A Pakistani Catholic Bishop has called for peace with the risk of a Pakistan-India war. Bishop Samson Shukardin of Hyderabad was speaking following an escalation of tensions between the two nuclear-a...
Bishop Sebastian Shaw is urging his country's government to catch the killers. A Pakistani bishop is calling for justice for Christian human rights campaigner Shahbaz Bhatti almost two years after he...
A Pakistani Christian man who was arrested on suspicion of committing blasphemy has died before having the opportunity to clear his name. Mukhtar Masih, 70, along with his wife, children and grandchi...
Pakistani Christian brothers Qasir and Amoon have been sentenced to death after being accused of blasphemy. The allegations date back to 2011 when the brothers were accused of posting disrespectful m...
Activists are calling for justice after doctors allegedly refused to treat a Christian in Pakistan who later died. Irfan Maish, 30, was overcome by toxic fumes while clearing a blocked sewer so his f...
Younis Masih was released yesterday after more than seven years in jail. A Pakistan Christian has escaped the death penalty after winning an appeal at the country's high court. Younis Masih was rel...
A Pakistani man has been murdered because he is a Christian, according to a lawyer representing his family. Aneeqa Maria, from Christian advocacy group The Voice Society, has said Aleem Masih, 28, an...
