Human chain formed to protect Christians during Lahore mass
LAHORE: The Muslim and Christian communities came together in a show of solidarity in Lahore, Express News reported Sunday. Hand in hand as many as 200 people formed a human […]
Pakistan’s deconstruct
the nation.com: Terrorism in Pakistan cannot be brought to an abrupt end through violent means. Most explanations about the strains and motivations of militancy though true are not universally applicable. Just like politics makes strange bedfellows, umbrella militant organisation will ally with any group or country prepared to challenge their […]
Hard-pressed groups like the Copts of Egypt, the Bahais of Iran, or the Ahmadiyyas, Shias, Christians
Source: The Economist: In plain language, such an envoy would be an advocate both internationally and above all within the administration for hard-pressed groups like the Copts of Egypt, the Bahais of Iran, or the Ahmadiyyas, Shias, Christians and other non-Sunni minorities in Pakistan. If such a job existed—so Mr […]
Ahmadis who lead dual lives
Source: ET Worse off are the Ahmadis who lead dual lives — secret lives, rather. Faith is an integral classification of identity in Pakistan. You are what you believe. And on this belief, we are divided — and we are killed. More:
Bombed and blamed: Pakistan’s Christians are in trouble
Global Post: KARACHI, Pakistan — Just hours after a bomb killed at least 80 people leaving mass at a church in the northwestern city of Peshawar, I received a disturbing text message. In Pakistan, mass text-messages are used to spread all kinds of information. People I barely know have texted me about […]
Pakistan Blasphemy Laws Reform Will Give Death Sentence To False Accusers
Religion News Service | By Richard S. Ehrlich Posted: 09/25/2013 10:23 am EDT (RNS) Pakistan’s constitutionally mandated Council of Islamic Ideology told the government anyone who wrongly accuses a person […]
The beginning of the end of Pakistan as a modern state
Source: LUBP The recent events in Pakistan have shown that the state of Pakistan is entering a new phase which may be called “the Takfiri State of Islam”. You may replace “Islam” by “Islamism” or “Islamofascism,” but it will be a lexical choice. You may even say, “Not yet,” but […]
“This is the deadliest attack on a church and the Christian community in Pakistan’s history
Source: CNN Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — All Saints Church was designed to look like a mosque — to symbolize unity amidst a community of many religions. Completed in 1883, it was built within the old walled city of Peshawar during a century of relative peace and harmony. But the weekend bombing […]
Picture of the Day: The church that looked like a mosque
The Express Tribune: So mindful were the Christians of Muslim sentiments that when they built Peshawar’s All Saints Church in 1882, they made it look like a mosque. Local artists […]
Pakistan church blast ‘kills 25’ Death Toll Rising- Latest Reports Indicate over 50 dead- Live
BBC-ET: A bomb blast outside a church in the Pakistani city of Peshawar kills at least 25 people and injured more than 40, medics say. A bomb disposal officer said two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the church when people were coming out after Sunday Mass. The victims were […]
Death is now everyday among Arabs – but culprits, and facts, are rare
In Lebanon, Egpyt and Syria, society has become frighteningly distorted, writes Robert Fisk. Mass gassing, massacres in the streets, mosque bombings. It’s as if no Middle Eastern state can any longer enjoy the blessings of peace. I was driving to Cairo airport on Friday, wondering if it was really wise […]
Minorities Day: President, PM call for inter-faith tolerance
ISLAMABAD: THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, PAKISTAN President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Sunday sent out their separate messages on the occasion of “Minorities Day”. President Zardari stressed […]
VIEW : The weight of persecution — Aisha Fayyazi Sarwari
VIEW : The weight of persecution — Aisha Fayyazi Sarwari Source: The Daily Times Pakistan has seemingly ensured that no Ahmedi demographic, including the dead, are spared the harsh reminder that they do not belong “That looks very biblical,” I said out loud while approaching the place Ahmedis call their […]
Pakistan: 203 incidents of sectarian violence in 18 months
Source: dailytimes.com.pk KARACHI: In the last 18 months, 203 incidents of sectarian violence in Pakistan resulted in 1,800 casualties, including 717 deaths, of which 635 were Shia. Sectarian and religious violence […]
Study: Arab Spring Adds To Religious Restrictions, Intolerance
WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – A new data analysis finds that the onset of the Arab Spring in late 2010 did not spark new freedoms for people of the region, but instead, has led to more global restrictions on religion. A Pew Research Center study finds that in the years since […]
State Dept. Report Says Countries Have Repressed Religious Freedom With Laws
Source: NY Times By STEVEN LEE MYERS WASHINGTON — Countries around the world, including allies of the United States, have used laws on blasphemy and apostasy to suppress political opponents, the State Department said on Monday in an annual report chronicling a grim decline in religious freedom that has resulted in rising […]
WORLD CRISES and the PATHWAY TO PEACE – by Mirza Masroor Ahmad
Foreword: The purpose of Islam is to teach man the ways of attaining peace, both with himself and with his Creator. Under Divine direction, over 1,400 years ago, Hadrat Muhammad (sa), the Holy […]
Pakistani minorities leery of democracy – Violence by Islamic radicals on rise since 2008 elections
LAHORE, PAKISTAN – In majority Muslim Pakistan, religious minorities say democracy is killing them. Intolerance has been on the rise for the past five years under Pakistan’s democratically elected government because of the growing violence of Islamic radicals, who are then courted by political parties, say many in the country’s […]
Pakistan: Persecution: Anti-Ahmadi group targets community again
LAHORE: A group of anti-Ahmadi activists and police dragged five members of the community from an anti-terrorist court to a police station and detained them for several hours here on […]