Headlines
  • After a temporary suspension, Emirates said the airline "will resume operations."
  • On Saturday, US President Donald Trump said that Iran will be "hit very hard" and that he was thinking about extending the strikes to other targets..
  • At least five ballistic missile launches from Iran have been detected by the Israelis since midnight.
  • Mehrabad Airport in Tehran is hit by strikes
  • The Prince Sultan Air Base was the target of a ballistic missile that Saudi Arabia's military intercepted and destroyed, according to the country's defense ministry.
  • Heavy gunfire on Friday injured three peacekeepers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon inside their base in southwest Lebanon.
  • To put an end to the bloodshed, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged serious diplomatic negotiations..
  • In a social media post, President Trump said that "no deal" other than "unconditional surrender" will be with Iran.
  • Iran reportedly receives intelligence from Russia on US targets.

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January 30, 2021

Christian Woman from Karachi Reported for...

With a sensational about-face, the police registered case no. 74/21 against the Christian woman Tabitha Nazir Gill, according to article 295 C of the Pakistani Penal Code, that is, for “having used derogatory comments pronounced or written, directly or indirectly, which offend the name of Muhammad or the other prophets”. It is one of the articles of the infamous blasphemy law that makes so many victims in Pakistan and that is frequently abused and brought up for personal revenge

January 13, 2021

Murder of Two young Christians, Killed...

The merciless murder of Abida and Sajida is a tragedy that shows how the lives of religious minorities in Pakistan are held by a thread or is worthless. Rape, kidnappings, forced conversions and even murders of young Christian girls are worrying phenomena

December 19, 2020

Bail for the kidnapper of the...

News of the granting of bail to the main defendant Ali Azhar and to the co-defendants saddens and wounds the religious minorities of Pakistan

December 12, 2020

The kidnapper of the Catholic Arzoo...

: The judicial battle continues in the case of Arzoo Raja, the kidnapped Catholic girl, forcefully converted to Islam, forced to marry Islamic last October, then freed by the police and now living in a family home, under the control of social workers

December 10, 2020

Appeal to the Pakistan Prime Minister:...

According to CSJ, a total of 162 cases of Hindu and Christian women were kidnapped, converted and forcibly married were officially recorded from 2013 to 2020 in the provinces of Punjab and Sindh alone

December 2, 2020

Anti-Christian violence: Two Statues of Saints...

The two statues are reduced to shatters” said Mgr. Shyamal Bose, Bishop of the Diocese of Baruipur, , in whose diocese the parish is located, after a site visit. “The authorities have assured us that they will arrest the perpetrators as soon as possible and replace all the images”, said the Bishop

December 1, 2020

Uncertain Situation in Tigray, Concern for...

According to unconfirmed reports, several refugees have been kidnapped. If confirmed, such treatment of refugees in camps near Tigray’s border with Eritrea “would be a serious violation of international norms” warned Grandi.
The TPLF accuses the Eritrean government of providing military aid to the Addis Ababa government

November 24, 2020

The Nine Journalists of a Catholic...

The Community Radio Forum “was able to provide logistical support to all journalists in order to reach the relatively safe areas of Namialo, Montepuez and Pemba”.
The last two journalists of the group arrived in safety on November 16 and “are already meeting their relatives in the district of Montepuez”

Arzoo Raja, the High Court Closes...

Karachi-The Sindh high court has ordered the teenage Catholic child bride Arzoo Raja – kidnapped, converted to Islam and subjected to forced marriage- to remain in a state-run shelter home. During today’s hearing, November 23, the judge did not allow the girl to return to her family of origin and that she will have to stay in the aforementioned structure

November 14, 2020

Arrest warrant for the Muslim Religious...

Karachi court issued an arrest warrant, without the possibility of bail, for Qazi Mufti Ahmed Jaan Raheemi, an Islamic religious accused of having celebrated the marriage of a Christian minor girl, Neha Pervaiz, kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam in April 2019. Neha Pervaiz managed to escape from her 45-year-old husband after a week in captivit

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