Bomb at religious school in Pakistan kills eight students, wounds 136
Peshawar, PakistanAP A powerful bomb blast ripped through an Islamic seminary on the outskirts of the north-west Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday morning, killing at least eight students and wounding 136 others, police and a hospital spokesman said. The bombing happened as a prominent religious scholar during a special class was delivering a lecture […]
Suspected accomplice in Pakistan church bombings acquitted
World Watch Monitor A Pakistani court has acquitted a suspected accomplice in two suicide bombings that targeted a church in Peshawar five years ago. Two suicide bombers blew themselves up as worshippers were leaving the Sunday service at All Saints’ Memorial Church on 22nd September, 2013. The bombings killed more than 80 people and injured over 100 […]
PAKISTAN: CHURCH LEADERS ARRESTED AND FINED FOR NOT PUTTING SECURITY IN PLACE
ASIF AQEEL reports for the World Watch Monitor from Pakistan…
POSTCARDS: PAKISTANI CHRISTIANS FACE DISCRIMINATION IN PRISONS TOO
ASIF AQEEL, of World Watch Monitor, reports on hardships facing Christians in prison in Pakistan…
Pakistani woman calls for Western countries to recognise Christian persecution
World Watch Monitor Kashmala Munawar in an interview with Australian broadcaster SBS in August 2014. PICTURE: SBS A young Pakistani Christian woman who travelled to Australia for surgery, after she was seriously injured in a twin suicide bombing at her church in Peshawar in 2013, says that three years on “countries in the West still fail […]
Christian security guard killed in suicide bomber attack in Peshawar, Pakistan
World Watch Monitor A Christian security guard was killed after an early morning attack on a Christian colony near the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar. Four suicide bombers, carrying automatic weapons, were waiting at the gate to the colony, which was locked every night. When Samuel Masih, 55, went to open it at around 5.30am, they shot […]