Pakistan

By BosNewsLife Asia Service ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A young Christian man was behind bars Saturday, January 23, after being sentenced to life imprisonment for having "insulted and desecrated" the Koran, seen as a holy book by Muslims.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Last year was the worst period of persecution against Christians in Pakistan in thelast decade, with attacks, arrests and detentions that reportedly killed some 130 Christians across the Islamic country,an advocacy group said Thursday, January 21.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Jawad Mazhar in Pakistan LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Two Christians in Pakistan were recovering of their injuries Thuesday, January 14, saying they were were shot at a wedding party for refusing to convert to Islam -- the latest in a series of Islamic attacks on weddings across the country.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- At least dozens of Pakistani Christians were recovering of injuries Tuesday, January 5, following attacks by Muslim extremists in and outside the capital Islamabad, Christians and rights investigators said.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife CAIRO/LAHORE (BosNewsLife)-- An aid and advocacy group has warned that a recent decision by Swiss voters to ban the construction of minarets in Switzerland is having ramifications for already persecuted Christians in several Muslim-majority countries.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Minority Christians in Pakistan faced a bloody New Year as local tribesmen prepared for funerals Saturday, January 2, shortly after the deadliest suicide attack in Pakistan's history killed at least 95 people.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service SARGODHA, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Christians on Tuesday, December 22, were mourning a Christian man who was shot dead by Muslim extremists while other believers recovered from injuries after an apparent Muslim attack on an evangelistic meeting showing the Jesus Film in Pakistan's tense Punjab province.

By Jawad Mazhar, BosNewsLife Special Correspondent reporting from Pakistan LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian man has been languishing for over three years in a Pakistan jail on charges of "blasphemy against Islam" and his family has expressed concerns over his health, BosNewsLife established Sunday, December 20.

By Jawad Mazhar, BosNewsLife Special Correspondent reporting from Pakistan LAHORE, PAKISTAN-- A court has released a Christian man and his teenage daughter who were imprisoned in Pakistan's Punjab province for over a year on what they described as “trumped up” charges of blasphemy.

By Jawad Mazhar Special Correspondent BosNewsLife reporting from Pakistan GUJRANWALA, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian sanitation worker was struggling for his life Tuesday, December 15, in a hospital of Pakistan's Punjab province after two Christian co-workers already died because Muslim employers apparently poisoned them, police and family confirmed.