India: February 22, 2007. The following is the text of the statement by All India Christian council secretary general Dr John Dayal, Member of the National Integration Council, Government of India, Christian Legal Association joint secretary Advocate Lansinglu Rongmei, National Conference of Dalit O

Lahore: February 19, 2007. Lahore High Court acquitted six Christian prisoners from the case under charge of murder, on 16th Feb 07. Poor prisoners awaited 10 years for justice.
Six Christian men named Akram son of Ilyas, Sooba son of Sadiq Masih, Rakha son of Barkat, Samuel son of Sadiq, Jan son

New Delhi, February 19, 2007. Chhatisgarh state ruled by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has one more Christian victim. Pastor Kanya Sharma's wife was severely beaten up by Mr. Jogi Sahu – a leader of Dharma Sena (Hindu Militant) early this morning. She is hospitalized in Medical College, Raipur.
So

Misbah Iqbal, a 22 year old, married mother of three, is taking a step by representing Pakistan in the Mrs. World pageant to be held in Sochi, Russia. Misbah Iqbal was born on June 1st, 1984 in Karachi, Pakistan and at 22, she is the first married woman to represent Pakistan at an international page

New York. February 15, 2007. The Indian Christian Forum (ICF) of New York expresses its deep shock and anguish at the news of the persecution of peaceful members of the Christian community in Chickmaglur district of Karnartaka. We call upon the district authorities to immediately release the Christi

India: February 15, 2007. S. Stanley, 58, a retired PSC employee was stabbed in front of his house at Pavaloor near Kalliyoor, in the Nemom police station limits on Saturday.
On Saturday, February 10th, in the afternoon, some youth assembled in front of Stanley's house, they shouted blasphemous abu

Kathmandu. February 15, 2007. The National Convention for Unity Organizing Committee of the Nepal Dalit Mukti Morcha - Dalit Liberation Front of Nepal (Unified), the Dalit organization affiliated with CPN (Maoists) submitted today a Memorandum to Prime Minister of Nepal, with its 31-point demands ad

DR WILLIAMS, returning from China, managed to hit the right note exactly in his piece for The Times. He was amused, shrewd, and reassuring: the kind of thing that requires very good timing. He wrote: "The proverbial visitor from Mars might have imagined that the greatest immediate threat to British

MP Geert Wilders is no stranger to controversy. It was following one of his parliamentary questions that the Netherlands introduced its ban on burkas. When Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered on November 2, 2004 by Islamist Mohamed Bouyeri, a grisly aspect of the killing was a note, pinned to

LAHORE: February 8, 2007. Two civil society organisations are trying to save the lives of two murder convicts sentenced to death by the Lahore High Court (LHC). Murad Masih is scheduled for hanging to death today (Wednesday) and Michael on February 14, 2007.
The NGOs have been trying to facilitat

After almost one year of imposed travel and other personal restrictions, Hopegivers Founder Bishop M.A. Thomas returned to the United States on Tuesday, January 30. Though the travel permission he received from India 's High Court only allows for a short visit during a prescribed window of dates, H

Karachi: February 5, 2007. The Division Bench of the Sindh High Court comprising Mr. Justice Mushir Alam and Mr. Justice Afzal Soomro here on Friday, 2nd February 2007 granted liberty to Bishop Ijaz Inayat Masih to pursue the remedy, which he has already invoked.
The order was passed in H.C.A. No.

At first glance, the congregation gathered in a warehouse in Doral, Fla., seems like a typical Hispanic evangelical group. There`s the 10-piece band, the singing and swaying, the whooping and hollering. But look a little more closely. There`s not a cross in sight. The lectern is emblazoned with a ne

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – January 31, 2007. If Pope Benedict hopes his first book will sell like Dan Brown "The Da Vinci Code," he wound up with the right U.S. publisher.
Doubleday, the company that sold Brown book about Jesus fathering children -- which the Vatican branded as blasphemous -- is al

India: January 29, 2007. Three Bible school students in the north Indian state of Himachal Pradesh were beaten on the morning of Saturday, January 27, and their Bible school vandalized by a group of Hindu extremists who oppose the growth of Christianity in their nation.
The students had divided int