The Gora Qabristan, a more than centaury old Christian cemetery invites attention of Karachi Cantonment Board, Karachi Metropolitan Corporation, British High Commission and Karachi Dioceses Cemetery Board to adopt necessary measures to prevent vandalism and desecration of graves. The damaged boundar

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Contrary to what professional historians might claim, there is really nothing a

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I am horrified by the voting being done presently at the following website:

http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/voting_result.php?id=51
It belongs to Pakistan Christian Post and the polling asks this from its vot

SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 2008
MASONIC UPRISING IN PAKISTAN

NAZIR BHATTI & THE CHRISTIAN/MASONIC UPRISING IN PAKISTAN: Propagandas and Real Intentions
An Analysis
By Zaki Khalid

For decades now, the Christian community of Pakistan has been wailing and crying over acts of “exploitation” and “abu

Restating our commitment to secure equal right to life, freedom and dignity of all human beings, and the right to distinct identity of all communities under law and in realty;

Recognizing that within each country there are minorities based on religion, language, ethnicity and nationality, who are

Canadian history starts normally "with the French , who came first as fishermen and later as explorers in the sixteenth century and stayed to settle,"1 though the Ojibway people have been in North America for centuries before them. The Ojibways are scattered now across Canada and the United State

Q: Jan Vikas is said to have played an important role in the battle for justice for the victims of the Gujarat genocide of 2002. What has been the nature of this work?
A: We have taken up the issue of POTA detenus, trying to fight for justice of those Muslims who have been unfairly detained under

It's like a tedious journey, to preach tolerance, peace, harmony and love. It's certainly not easy to bring communities to a point where they talk about similarities and not the differences. The path is hard, people are rigid and resources limited but I'm hopeful enough to dream that our children wi

to settle their personal disputes in shariah courts or dar ul qazas instead of approaching state courts for the purpose. Less than a fortnight later, last week the Jamiat ul-'Ulama-I Hind, an all-India body of Deobandi mullahs, followed suit and passed a resolution at its annual conference in Delhi

I am administrator of Brenton Carey Girls Hostel for almost 5 year now. Since one year Rev. Sadiq Daniel (so-called bishop) was trying to kick me out but my management committee never agreed because they were satisfied with my work.

In the month of March Rev. Sadiq Daniel spread out two dirty

What havoc has been and is being wrought by forces of retrogression, vested interest, fundamentalists, obscurants and religious extremists in the name of Islam in the recent past has perhaps not been much known to those who are not victim of such oppression. The much-trumpeted 'war on terror' in the

Since history is always subject to distortion, there is hardly anything surprising about what the BNP-led government has done with the documents of the Liberation War of Bangladesh. It has revised sections of the fifteen-volume official history of the Freedom Movement (which is not free from distort

Immam Din shabaz was born in Zafarwal, Sialkot district, in eastern Punjab, in 1845.His whole family was Muslim and very orthodox in Islamic religious traditions. They belonged to Shia Muslim sect, who are followers of legacy of their early Muslim forefathers but he accepted JESUS CHRIST, as his sav

To the Bible Discussion Group:

Our discussion this time is again dealing with the "Blessed Hope" of the believer in Christ: the resurrection of the dead and the second coming of Christ. One of the members of our discussion group wrote and asked what is the meaning of the term "first-fruits" in