Pakistan Archives

To escape abusive marriages, many Christians in Pakistan convert to Islam
- Global Church, Religion News Service
- June 8, 2017
Many Christians in Pakistan are considering or have already converted to Islam due to fewer restrictions for divorce placed on Muslims. Pakistan still adopts laws stemming from the British colonial period for Christians, but officials are now considering revising the law to make it easier for couples to part ways.
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New martyrs whose deaths meet the old test of ‘hatred of the faith’
- Global Church
- April 21, 2017
Pope Francis is set to visit Rome’s Church of St. Bartholomew on Saturday to shine a spotlight on the Church’s new martyrs. Yesterday, Crux presented a sampling of new martyrs killed ‘in odium amoris,’ or ‘hatred of love’; today, we look at several new martyrs whose deaths seem to meet the classic test of being killed ‘in odium fidei,’ or ‘hatred of the faith.’
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Archbishop says Pakistani martyrs illustrate ‘purpose of being’
- Global Church, Interviews
- April 20, 2017
Christians in Pakistan represent just two percent of the population in an overwhelmingly Muslim nation, and one gripped for the last thirty years by a rising tide of extremism. They’re also largely poor and members of ethnic and linguistic minorities, so they’re doubly or triply at risk. Archbishop Sebastian Shaw of Lahore says that his country’s martyrs can teach the Church, and the world, about ‘the purpose of being.’
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Pakistan army foils major terrorist attack on Easter Sunday

After two Coptic Christian churches were attacked in Egypt during the Easter season, Christians around the world have been on high alert. Many Christian leaders have hoped for an uptick in security especially during Easter weekend. That has proven itself helpful already in Pakistan.

Pakistani Catholics on alert after new suicide bombing

After a suicide bomber killed at least 13 people and left 85 injured in an attack on Monday outside the Punjab Assembly in Lahore, Pakistan, Catholic leaders have reacted with indignation and concern, closing schools and even the Lahore cathedral as precautionary measures.

Catholics dismayed by acquittal of anti-Christian mob in Pakistan

Catholic organizations expressed shock after the acquittal of 115 people suspected of burning more than 100 Christian homes in 2013 in Pakistan. Hundreds of residents were displaced following the violence while the perpetrators of the attack were freed due to “insufficient evidence.”