Pope urges church workers to fight child abuse, even when facing threats
- Feb 25, 2020
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Asia Bibi, Pakistani woman accused of blasphemy, seeks asylum in France
- Feb 25, 2020
A Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy after spending eight years on death row in Pakistan, and who faced death threats from Islamic extremists, said she is going to request asylum in France.
In autobiography, Asia Bibi speaks of iron collar, ‘depths of darkness’
- Feb 2, 2020
Asia Bibi, the Catholic woman acquitted of blasphemy after spending eight years on death row in Pakistan, described herself as “a prisoner of fanaticism” in her newly published autobiography.
Pakistani archbishop, now a Canadian, focuses on helping asylum-seekers
- Jan 19, 2020
A Pakistani Catholic archbishop who migrated to Canada after his retirement said his focus now is on helping persecuted Pakistani Christians who seek asylum in Canada.
Where virtue falls short, US envoy says money talks on religious freedom
- Jan 19, 2020
“You’ve just ruled yourself out of a whole bunch of investment if you’ve given in to this monochromatic view of religion, that it has to be this and everybody else we punish,” said U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback.
Sold to China as a bride, she came home on brink of death
- Dec 12, 2019
Traffickers have increasingly targeted Pakistan’s impoverished Christian population over the past two years, paying desperate families to give their daughters and sisters, some of them teenagers, into marriage with Chinese men.
Pakistani Christians hiding in Bangkok debate attending papal Mass
- Nov 5, 2019
When Pope Francis celebrates Mass in a Bangkok sports stadium Nov. 21, tens of thousands of Catholics from across Thailand will be there to celebrate with him.
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