the Pakistani Christian Diaspora in USA will rally in front of UN building in New York against suicide bombing on Churches in Youhanabad Lahore on Thursday, March 26, 2015.
Twin suicide bombers attacked on St. John Church and Christ Church on March 15, 2015, during Sunday services killing 17 and in

A Pakistani Taliban splinter group claimed responsibility.
The blasts went off minutes apart in a majority Christian suburb of the eastern city. Police said it seemed they targeted two churches, one Catholic and one Protestant, that are very close to each other.
After the blasts, enraged residen

The ruling was a surprise to many who had expected the killer's sentence might be reduced amid growing threats to lawyers and judges hearing blasphemy-related cases.
Mumtaz Qadri was a bodyguard for Punjab Governor Salman Taseer and was convicted of shooting him dead in Islamabad in January 2011.

In my role as lead officer for the BPCA in Pakistan I often find myself travelling in dangerous areas in Pakistan, a country full of bandits, highwayman and insurgents. It might not seem much of a task till you realise I am a vulnerable 26 year old Christian women in a country where both my faith an

A death threat signed by a Muslim extremist group - with three bullets attached - compelled the Christian family to leave it all behind 18 months ago. Now they live in a barren room in Bangkok, where the children share a double bed and the parents sleep on the floor. They cook on a propane burner on

to provide medical assistance to Mr. Jarvas Jerry, a Pakistani Christian asylum seeker in Bangkok who is seriously ill and waiting for help to save his life.
“When he came to Bangkok, he was well. But due to the troubles here he got many problems. Today he is in the hospital fighting with his illne

Addressing members of the Church of Scotland, the Argentine pope mentioned the killings which took place on a beach in Libya and were filmed and broadcast on Sunday by a website that supports Islamic State.
“Their only words were: ‘Jesus, help me!’ They were killed simply for the fact that they wer

The pope was on his way to a visit to a parish in the working class Tiburtina area when he asked aides to make a detour to stop at the shantytown he had heard about.
“He got out of the car and people were shocked when they saw him in front of their shacks,” said Father Aristide Sana, the pastor of

The End Blasphemy Laws campaign is being run by a new International Coalition Against Blasphemy Laws bringing together organizations that share the same goal: campaigning to repeal “blasphemy” and related laws worldwide.
The campaign has three strategic goals:
Blasphemy out of Europe, out of “west

and he justified the governor’s murder by stating that he had killed him for supporting Asia Bibi, a Christian woman whom Taseer believed had been wrongly convicted of committing blasphemy. The appeal was heard by two-members of division bench of IHC’s comprising of Justice Noor ul Haq Qureshi and J

The theme of this year's march is "Every life is a gift." The March for Life has taken place in late January every year since 1974 to protest the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade. There are an estimated 400,000 marchers each year.
Pope Francis announced on Monday that he will be visiting Was

"One cannot provoke, one cannot insult other people's faith, one cannot make fun of faith," the pope told said in a press conference aboard his Vatican plane, according to the translation from Italian by the CBS News reporter traveling with him to Manila, Philippines.
But he drew an analogy betwee

Francis will name the new cardinals at a Feb. 14-15 ceremony, formally known as a consistory, Vatican spokesman Jesuit Fr. Federico Lombardi said at a briefing Thursday.
Cardinals, sometimes known as the "princes of the church" and for their wearing of red vestments, are usually senior Catholic pre

Calling also for an end to violence against "vast numbers of children", and noting last week's deadly attack in Pakistan, he said: "Truly there are so many tears this Christmas."
Delivering his second Christmas blessing, the popular Argentine pontiff, visibly moved and departing from his text, said

nationalities, and political views. The Taliban's continued practice of mass murder of children and targeted killings of children is nothing less than crimes against humanity. There is no rationale, no justification, and no defense for such crimes against humanity by the Taliban.
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