Pakistan

By BosNewsLife Asia Service ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Pakistani court has acquitted a Christian woman who spent nearly six months in prison with her infant son in the country's Punjab province on "a false charge of blasphemy", her defense team told BosNewsLife.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Five Christian families have been forced to leave their village in Pakistan's Punjab province after a Christian teenager was accused of “blasphemy” against Islam on social media, Christians told BosNewsLife.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Pakistani police detained a young shopkeeper for blasphemy after he was falsely accused of burning pages of the Qur'an, viewed as a holy book by Muslims, a Christian advocacy group said Friday, August 7, citing local sources.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Dozens of Pakistani Christians accused of killing two Muslim youths after...

By BosNewsLife Asia Service ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Pakistani Muslim cleric remained in police custody late Sunday, September 2, on charges he stashed pages of a book with verses from the Koran in the bag of a mentally impaired Christian girl to make it appear she burned what Muslims regard as a holy book.

By Jawad Mazhar, BosNewsLife Special Correspondent reporting from Pakistan SHEIKHUPURA, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A young Christian maid was raped and burned to death by the son of her Muslim employer in the industrial city of Sheikhupura, the second murder of a domestic servant in Pakistan's Punjab province in less than two months, investigators confirmed Thursday April 1.

By a Special BosNewsLife Correspondent reporting from Pakistan RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian woman remained in hospital Monday, June 28, after she was beaten and briefly abducted on the orders of a prominent Pakistani Muslim legislator "because Christians didn't vote" for him, family and police said.

By Martin Roth, BosNewsLife Senior Columnist LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife Columns)-- I suspect we are going to see more of this. After suicide bombers attacked two churches this month during Sunday worship, leaving at least 17 people dead and scores injured, Pakistani Christians went on a rampage through the streets of Lahore.

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.