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 Worldw...
The government in Pakistan has decided to leave strict blasphemy laws in the country unchanged. Â Pakistan's government has agreed to seven out of ten demands made by Mumtaz Qadri supporters, who ha...
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 Mr Ju...
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 days.T...
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, a Ca...
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 "insis...
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...