Pakistan

By BosNewsLife News Center VATICAN CITY/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)--  The Vatican's missionary news agency says more than two dozen priests, nuns and lay Catholics were killed worldwide in 2011, BosNewsLife monitored Monday, January 16.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife )-- A Christian man who spent more than three years in a Pakistani jail on "false charges of blasphemy against Islam" was hiding with his family in Pakistan's Punjab province Tuesday, December 27, after police briefly detained him again, a friend and human rights official told BosNewsLife.  

By BosNewsLife Asia Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian mother of five sentenced to death on charges of "blasphemy" against Islam and over a dozen other Christians held in Pakistani jails spent Christmas Day without their families, after authorities refused requests to allow prison visits, well-informed Christians said.  

By BosNewsLife Asia Service LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- An evangelical church leader and another pastor in Pakistan's second largest city Lahore were hiding Sunday, December 4, after being accused of blasphemy against Islam, while a woman was hoping to avoid a long prison term on similar charges, their supporters told BosNewsLife.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Two Muslim men remained behind bars Friday, December 2, after they were sentenced to long prison terms for raping a Christian girl, but the case was overshadowed by the killing of another rape victim and police brutality against a pregnant Christian woman and her husband, trial observers said.  

By BosNewsLife Asia Service KARACHI, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Funeral services were prepared Thursday, November 17, for a Christian evangelist and entrepreneur who was killed by suspected Islamic fighters in Pakistan's financial capital Karachi, Christians said.  

By BosNewsLife Special Correspondent Xavier P. William reporting from Pakistan ABBOTTABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A pregnant Christian housemaid is in critical condition following alleged torture by Pakistani police, an incident that rights activists say underscores widespread violence against Christian domestic workers in this heavily Islamic Asian nation.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian mother of five, who faces execution by hanging on charges of "blasphemy" against Islam, is recovering in her Pakistani jail Monday, October 17, after she was allegedly attacked by a prison officer.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian Pakistani politician accused security forces on Friday, October 7, of refusing to detain Muslim fighters who allegedly shot dead one Christian and injured over 20 others in Pakistan's Punjab province.  

By Xavier P. William, BosNewsLife Special Correspondent reporting from Pakistan RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)--  A Pakistani court on Saturday, October 1, sentenced to death the self-confessed assassin of the governor of Pakistan's largest province, who wanted to reform a law against blasphemy under which especially Christians have been prosecuted.