IDOP is one of the largest prayer events in the world. Last year, an estimated half a million churches in 150 countries participated in the event, according to Open Doors, an international Christian ministry that supports persecuted believers.
“The International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Chu

The program of the meeting will be as follows. After a musical prelude, Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the pontifical council for culture, will extend a greeting to those present in the name of the pope.
Then a few passages will be read from the “Letter to Artists” by John Paul II, fro

throughout country in minutes on afternoon of November 3, 2009. Hundreds of mobile messages were circulated by Christians in Muree to different organizations that Islamic outfits in Pakistan have burnt down St. Denys School and same was forwarded to PCP by one very reliable source.
Muree is famous

Some fear that this episode is the beginning of a new campaign of government suppression of public Christian worship gatherings.
According to reports by Farsi Christian News Network (FCNN), Rev. Sourik, the bishop of the Assemblies of God churches in Iran, resolved to close the church on Fridays,

The Girls Hostel adjacent to St. Dennis High School was also ransacked and burnt down in broad day light.
Muree is 30 miles from Islamabad, capital of Pakistan and famous hilltop picnic point.. The Church of Pakistan and Catholic Church in Pakistan have educational institutes and retreat centers he

‘Christians voted for independence of Pakistan in London Round Table Conferences and before Boundary Commission on assurances by Mohammad Ali Jinnah and All India Muslim Leagues that Pakistan will be a Peoples Republic nor an Islamic state or homeland of Muslims only. When Christians were supporting

, which allows prison and death sentences for those who offend the Muslim religion. Nazir S. Bhatti is the President of Pakistan Christian Congress. He told us that the law protects terrorism in the country:
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This law punishes with imprisonment or the death those who profane or desecrate the Koran or the prophet Muhammad. It’s enough to accuse a person of this to have him arrested and imprisoned. A aberrant law and harbinger of discrimination, which "legalizes" violence against religious minorities and

As a religious minority Christians face religious, social, constitutional, economic and educational discrimination. In addition to Christians, non-Muslim Pakistanis include Baha’is, Buddhists, Hindus, Jains, Kalasha, Parsees and Sikhs.
Pakistan’s Founding Fathers envisaged a progressive, democratic

Pakistan Christian Congress PCC have launched a movement in Pakistan to repeal blasphemy instead of proposed revision by Shahbaz Bhatti, Federal Minister for Minorities who was selected by Pakistan Peoples Party PPP and imposed on Christian.
Pakistani Christians have been deprived of their basic ri

in a moot in Rawalpindi Press Club organized by Pakistan Christian Congress PCC.
The Conference was attended by Christian delegates from Punjab and NWFP and prominent leaders representing different religious political groups of Christian.
The well attended conference of its first kind in Pakistan

to discus strategy to repeal controversial blasphemy will gather here in “All Christian Parties Conference” hosted by Pakistan Christian Congress PCC, on October 25, 2009.
The said conference was called by PCC in Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi on October 24, 2009, but after threats to Pakistan Chris

and discussion forums to discuss blasphemy law on October 24-25, 2009, as token of solidarity with PCC call to repeal blasphemy law by hosting All Christian Parties Conference in Rawalpini, on October 25, 2009.
Nazir Bhatti said “ All Christian Parties Conference shall be a milestone to launch peac

All Christian Parties Conference on October 25, 2009, at Rawalpindi Press Club.
The invitations were given to Christian members of parliament who raised voice to repeal blasphemy law in House while Christians selected by Pakistan Peoples Party PPP and Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz group PML(N) were

The draft of the Qanun Jinayat Code, a set of bylaws that replaces elements of the Criminal Code with Shariah provisions for Muslims, was endorsed by the Aceh Legislative Council on Sept. 14.
The measures call for the stoning of adulterers and 100 lashes for anyone caught engaging in premarital se