Cairo: January 14, 2011. (By Mary Abdelmassih AINA) Six Copts were shot by an off-duty policeman on a train between Assiut and Cairo on Tuesday. One Copt was killed and five remain in critical condition. The gunman, identified as Amer Ashour Abdel-Zaher, was on his way to work in Beni Mazar police s

Khushpur, Pakistan: January 14, 2011. (PCP) Mr Jacob Bhatti father of Mr Shahbaz Bhatti Federal Minister for Minorities passed away in Islamabad on 11th Jan 2011 after a protracted illness.
Mr Jacob Bhatti had been ill for some time and was hospitalized in Islamabad where he was under going treatm

Washington DC: January 14, 2011. Dr. Ashraf Ramelah, President of Voice of The Copts have said that we are appalled at the Copts' rejection of fellow protesters who were draped in the Israeli national flag as a show of solidarity with Israel and the Jews.
We strongly condemn the actions of those C

London: January 14, 2011. (PCP) The British Pakistani Christian Association BPCA has arranged to hand over a wreath of flowers to the Pakistani High Commissioner Wajid Shamsul Hasan, at 17:00, today
Our wreath will be a representation of the love our community has for the nation of Pakistan and for

Cairo: January 14, 2011. (PCP) Copts gathering Thursday morning in the streets of the Zabbaleen suburb of Cairo to peacefully protest the fatal attacks upon Coptic Christians in recent days were surrounded by Egyptian police who fired live bullets and gas bombs into the crowd leaving many people inj

Lahore: January 14, 2011. (PCP) Mr. Khalid Gill, Chairman, Christian Lawyers Federation Pakistan CLF, Dr. Nazir S Bhatti, President of Pakistan Christian Congress PCC and Mr. William Xavier, Director of Life for All have expressed grief on deaths of Master Jacob Bhatti, father of Mr. Shahbaz Bhatti

Lahore: January 14, 2011. (PCP) Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP) protest against the assassination of Salman Taseer (Governor Punjab, Pakistan) was assassinated Tuesday January 04, by one of his own security guards. The shooting took place in the Pakistan’s capital of Islamabad .Human Rights Focus

Karachi: January 11, 2011. (PCP) Dr. Nazir S Bhatti, President of Pakistan Christian Congress PCC have strongly condemned comments of Liaqat Baloch, JI leader to ask Holy Father Pope Benedict to apologize on his comments on blasphemy law in address to diplomats in Vatican City in which he asked gove

Islamabad: January 12, 2011. (PCP) Yousaf Raza Gillani, Prime Minister of Pakistan, announced here today that Pakistan Peoples Party PPP government have no intentions to repeal or revise blasphemy law.
Talking with reporters PM of Pakistan said that PPP government have already issued policy stateme

New Delhi: January 12, 2011. (PCP) History is said to be made when humanity has tried to break asunder forces of unreason, irrationality, bigotry, intolerance and reaction which keep reappearing in newer forms in its onward journey. But what can one say when it tries to do the exact opposite, or pre

Dear President of Pakistan,
PAKISTAN: Government must file FIRs for attempted murder against the religious leaders calling for the killing of innocent persons
Name of victim: Ordinary citizens of Pakistan

Names of alleged perpetrators:
1.Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Chief of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam
2

Pakistan: January 12, 2011. (PCP) A Punjabi Muslim police officer, A Pushtoon influential Muslim and their Muslim criminal gang members were kidnapping on gunpoint teenage Christian boys, residents of Akhtar Colony Mahmoodabad from years and sexually abusing them. Under fear of this Muslim criminal

Dear His Grace the Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul Yak,
Greetings to you from Christ Church, La Crosse, Wisconsin. We have been keeping vigil and praying for a peaceful referendum and God’s blessings on the people of Sudan. As I look back on my own involvement
from 1994 onward with the Province of the

Holland: January 10, 2011. (Parvez Iqbal report for PCP) Large number of Pak - Dutch Christian Community members from all walks of life in Holland as well as most active Christian NGOs in Holland including Pakistan Christian Congress Holland Chapter, The Saviors Welfare Holland, Good Angels World O

Vatican City: January 10, 2011. (Vatican Radio/Agencies) Pope Benedict XVI delivered his annual address to the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See Monday, telling representatives from the 178 states that now more than ever the right to religious freedom needs to be respected and implemented.