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- May 29, 2020
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Pakistani police say armed men damage church in land dispute
- May 11, 2020
A group of armed men vandalized a church in eastern Pakistan before fleeing the scene, a local police official said Monday.
Report gives Pakistan failing grade on human rights
- May 1, 2020
An annual human rights report released this week gives Pakistan a failing grade, charging that too little is being done to protect the country’s most vulnerable, including women and children.
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.
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