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Christians in India fearful as election looms

Church walls crumble in India’s Kandhamal district, where brutal attacks on Christians 16 years ago means many survivors still worry about their minority’s place in a Hindu-majority nation. With India’s…

Christians & caste

CHRISTMAS is hardly a big occasion in Pakistan. More than two million Pakistani Christians celebrate it guardedly, with few from the Muslim majority joining them. Government officials issue cut-and-paste statements…

Palestine’s Christians

Palestine’s Christians

Palestine’s Christian population is dwindling at an alarming rate. The world’s most ancient Christian community is moving elsewhere. And the reason for this is Israel. Christian leaders from Palestine and…

Updating Christian Personal Law

Updating Christian personal law

In 2016 a Christian man, Ameen Masih, wanted to divorce his wife. However, much to his dismay he found out that he could not do so under the 1869 Divorce…

Pakistan’s terrified Christians

The prime minister and people of New Zealand have put before us gold-plated standards of decency, compassion, and firmness against religious terrorism. Their response to last week’s horrific mosque massacres…

Zia And Pakistani Christians

Zia and Pakistani Christians

You are totally mistaken if you think that Ziaul Haq – that great guardian of Muslim faith – has left a ‘glorious legacy’ for only Muslim women – a legacy…

So What Else Should Christians Do?

So what else should Christians do?

When their homes were ransacked in Gojra, where was the provincial sarkar? When Joseph Colony in Lahore was ransacked on patently trumped-up pretences – the usual blasphemy tool employed to…

One Community

One community

We are different from one another yet we are one community. In fact, the Holy Quran says that all humans are one community. Everyone born in this world is human…

On The Christian Protests

On the Christian protests

The Christians of Punjab have finally stood up and the rest of us are afraid. After suicide bombings at two churches in Youhanabad on March 15 which luckily ‘only’ killed…