Family of murdered Pakistani Christian MP open training centre for women
World Watch Monitor The family of the murdered Catholic MP Shahbaz Bhatti is opening an education centre for Christian women and girls in Khushpur, eastern Pakistan, reports AsiaNews. Khushpur, near Faisalabad in Punjab province, is the largest Christian settlement in Pakistan and the area where the former minister for minorities came from and where he is buried. A […]
PAKISTAN ELECTIONS: CHRISTIANS EXPRESS DISMAY AT LACK OF REPRESENTATION
With elections scheduled for later this month, ASIF AQEEL, of World Watch Monitor, looks the representation of Christians and other minority groups in Parliament in Pakistan…
Asia Bibi central to trade deals, EU tells Pakistan
World Watch Monitor The EU’s Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief, Jan Figeľ, told Pakistani officials during a recent visit that the renewal of their export privileges to Europe depends on the release of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman on death row for blasphemy since 2010. “The EU countries have started believing that […]
PAKISTAN: SIX YEARS ON, JUSTICE THWARTED IN THE CASE OF SHAHBAZ BHATTI
World Watch Monitor reports on claims from Pakistan’s Christian community that, six years after his assassination, authorities are not doing enough to ensure the killers of murder Pakistani Christian MP Shahbaz Bhatti are brought to justice…
PAKISTAN: CHRISTIANS MOURN ASSASSINATED MINISTER BHATTI; MUSLIM MILITANTS SUSPECTED
STEFAN J BOS, of BosNewsLife, reports…
PAKISTAN: CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT MINISTER ASSASSINATED
A report from BosNewsLife…