Tag: Christian

Gunmen kidnap Christian staff of South Korean hospital

Gunmen on Wednesday abducted two Pakistani Christians working for a South Korean-run hospital in a violent slum area of the country’s largest city Karachi,...

SC orders police to recover kidnapped Christian girl

A two member bench of the Supreme Court (SC) headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Friday directed the Inspector General...

Services of Christian policemen lauded

Islamabad Deputy Inspector General (DIG) (Headquarters) Ahmed Mukarram said Friday that the minorities in the city, including Christians are contributing significantly to the local...

Christian blasphemy convict ‘fit as a fiddle’

Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy and currently imprisoned in Sheikhupura Jail, is in perfect mental and physical condition as opposed to...

Britain is a Christian country: PM

Britain is a Christian nation and should not be afraid of standing up for Christian values to help counter the country's "moral collapse", Prime...

Christian added to Australia Test squad

Daniel Christian was added Monday to the Australian squad for this week's second and final Test against New Zealand in Hobart as the home...

‘APCL to unite Christian community’

The All Pakistan Christian League (APCL) has the main agenda to protect basic rights of the Christian Community and unite youth and others under...

Inter-faith harmony stressed

Muslim clerics, representatives from Christianity, Sikhism, Hinduism and Bha’i religion on Saturday set up the Peace and Harmony Network Pakistan (PHNP) in a meeting...

Egypt cabinet in crisis talks after bloodshed

Egypt's cabinet held crisis talks Monday after 24 people died in clashes between Coptic Christians and security forces that threaten to widen cracks in...

Egyptian Christians mourn dead after clashes kill 25

Egyptian Christians mourned their dead and berated the army on Monday after at least 25 people were killed when troops crushed a protest about...

Sex scandals strain Church ties with Berlusconi

Sex scandals have strained relations between Silvio Berlusconi and the Church to breaking point, but the Vatican has not managed to find a viable...

Christian: The lion who lived on the King’s Road

It is almost exactly 40 years since two young Australians had what has become a famous encounter with a lion in the depths of...

Christians worry Egypt being hijacked by Islamists

Last January, Nazih Moussa Gerges locked up his downtown Cairo law office and joined hundreds of thousands of fellow Egyptians to demand that President...

12 killed in Muslim-Christian clashes in Egypt

The death toll from clashes between Muslims and Christians in the Egyptian capital Cairo rose to 12, state television said on Sunday, as the...

Protests rage in south Egypt against Christian governor

CAIRO - Hundreds of Egyptians on Monday protested against the appointment of a Christian governor in the southern city of Qena, as officials scrambled to end the four-day crisis, security officials said. Protests first kicked off on Friday after Emad Mikhail was appointed governor of Qena which has a large Coptic Christian population and a history of sectarian strife.
Interior Minister Mansur Essawy, who made an impromptu visit to the southern province late on Sunday, failed to

PU’s Christian staff celebrates Easter

LAHORE - Punjab University's (PU) Christian staff organized a ceremony in connection with the Easter in the Seminar Hall of the History Department on Tuesday. The Resident Officer (RO) and the chief guest I Javed Sami said citizens should work together for the progress of Pakistan and PU and congratulated entire Christian staff of the varsity on Good Friday on behalf of the varsity administration.
Sanitary Supervisor Mushtaq Masih thanked Vice-Chancellor Dr Mujahid Kamran,

China detains Christian worshippers

BEIJING - Beijing police arrested dozens of Christian worshippers Sunday from a "house church" -- one not formally recognised by the government -- when they tried to pray outdoors, a rights group said.
They sang hymns and said prayers as police loaded them onto waiting buses in Beijing's western Haidian district, the US-based Christian rights group China Aid said in a statement, citing witnesses. "The Beijing authorities have again demonstrated their total disregard of their