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by bcadmin | Jun 5, 2021 | anti-Christian violence, Asia Bibi, blasphemy law, Church in Asia, lahore, lead, News, Pakistan | 0 |
After an illiterate Pakistani Christian couple who spent years on death row over false blasphemy charges was acquitted this week, an expert and long-time Asia watcher has called for those responsible to be punished.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 3, 2021 | Anti-Christian persecution, Asia Bibi, Associated Press, blasphemy laws, Church in Asia, News, Pakistan | 0 |
A Pakistani appeals court on Thursday acquitted a Christian couple sentenced to death on blasphemy charges for allegedly insulting Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, their defense lawyer said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 1, 2021 | Asia Bibi, Associated Press, blasphemy laws, Catholic Church, Church in Asia, European Parliament, News, Pakistan, Religious Freedom | 0 |
Pakistan on Friday decried a move by the European Parliament, which a day earlier adopted a resolution demanding Islamabad allow freedom for religious minorities and asked the EU to reconsider the South Asian country’s preferential trade status.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 21, 2021 | Aid to the Church in Need, Anti-Christian persecution, Asia Bibi, Church in Asia, lead, News, Religious Freedom | 0 |
During the presentation of a report on religious freedom produced by a papal charitable foundation, Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian who spent eight years on death row on blasphemy charges, appealed to her country’s government to put an end to this discriminatory law.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 29, 2020 | Asia Bibi, Associated Press, blasphemy laws, Church in Asia, News, Pakistan | 0 |
A young Pakistani Muslim walked into a courtroom in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Wednesday and shot and killed a fellow Muslim who was on trial for blasphemy, a police officer said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 28, 2020 | Asia Bibi, Casa Santa Marta, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Italy, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Daily Mass, Domus Sanctae Marthae, Holocaust, Italy, News, Pope Francis, quarantine, social distancing, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis began his early morning Mass praying that people would be prudent and obedient as governments begin lifting restrictions imposed to stop the coronavirus pandemic.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 25, 2020 | Asia Bibi, Associated Press, blasphemy laws, Catholic Church, Church in Asia, France, News, Pakistan | 0 |
A Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy after spending eight years on death row in Pakistan, and who faced death threats from Islamic extremists, said she is going to request asylum in France.
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