Islamabad: January 31, 2016. (IANS) For the millions of Hindus living in Pakistan has no marriage law. This “legal vacuum naturally creates a multitude of issues for Pakistani Hindus, especially the women”.
An editorial “Hindu marriage bill” in Dawn on Friday said that while many politicians are qu

Philadelphia: January 31, 2016. (Reuters) A tiny black Fiat 500L that carried Pope Francis through Philadelphia during his historic U.S. visit was sold for $82,000 at an auction on Friday, organizers said.
The auction drew more than 19 bidders and lasted just 11 minutes. Participants competed to ta

UP, India: January 30, 2016. (GCIC) Bajrang Dal activists tonsured a youth and paraded him on a donkey in a Uttar Pradesh village for allegedly converting another man to Christianity without his consent, police said.
Police added they were probing the claim of one Sangam Jatav who alleged that the

Nigeria: January 30, 2016. (Morning Star News) Two Nigerian pastors have been abducted this month in Kogi state, as kidnapping cartels that have plagued the central state the past three years directed their aim at Christian leaders.
In a departure from numerous kidnappings of high-profile business

Israel: January 30, 2016. Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered ancient epitaphs in both Greek and Aramaic which date back to the first century.
CBN News reports that the inscriptions were found in a cemetery which is located in the ancient Galilean capital city of Zippori.
"Zippori was the firs

ISLAMABAD: January 30, 2016. (PCP) Maulana Tahir Ashrafi, Chairman Pakistan Ulema Council PUC in a statement here today that former government sought opinion of Pakistan Council of Islamic ideology CII on blasphemy law on which recommendations have been tabled in CII for severe punishment on blasphe

ISLAMABAD: January 29, 2016. (Reuters) - The head of a powerful religious body said on Thursday he is willing to review Pakistan's harsh blasphemy laws that critics say are regularly misused and have led to the deaths of hundreds, to decide if they are Islamic.
Pakistan's religious and political el

France: January 28, 2016. (Maish Rai) Shahin Gobadi of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) today said: "Thousands of Iranians came out today to soundly expose Rouhani’s façade. Their message was that Rouhani is only a functionary of the religious fascis

London: January 28, 2016. (PCP) Intent on helping the victims of the Charsadda attack our young intrepid officer Mehwish Bhatti travelled to the scene of the terrorist attack. The site was a hollow place and is still closed as the faculty and students come to terms with the recent targeting of thei

New York/San Francisco: January 27, 2016. (PCP) A national coalition of 10 civil rights groups are calling on the U.S. Department of State's Inspector General (OIG) to open an independent investigation into a series of coercive interrogations at the U.S. Embassy in Sana'a, Yemen that led the Embassy

New Delhi: January 27, 2016. (PCP) The Indo-Palestine Friendship Society and Solidarity Council in cooperation with several political and social groups in India held a meeting at Jantar Mantar, the Headquarters of National Panthers Party to review the situation created in Palestine by Israel grabbin

London: January 26, 2016. (PCP) The recently released ‘World Watch List 2016’ has shown that Pakistan has unfortunately moved up to sixth place for how badly Christians are treated. In 2015 it had ranked at number 8. Now they rank it as just after Syria, where ISIS is slaughtering Christians on a re

Rawalpindi: January 26, 2016. (PCP) On January 25, 2016 the Lord spared life of Katherine widow of Yousaf Masih aged about 65 from more than 30 Muslim people who attacked her to kill in the house in false blasphemy accusations. In November 2015 Yousaf family allegedly accused of blasphemy by locals

Lahore: January 26, 2016. (Fr. Inayat Bernard) “It is a miracle that the religious leaders of different denominations are sitting together for worship in St. John’s Catholic Church, Youhanabad, Lahore”. Archbishop Sebastian Francis Shaw OFM was talking to some 140 pastors and faithful gathered for t

KARACHI: January 25, 2016. (PCP) The Chairman of Ansar Burney Trust International and Pakistan's former Federal Minister for human Rights, Ansar Burney, Advocate on Saturday filed a Constitutional Petition No 459/2016 in the Sindh High Court after the reports of 189 Pakistani prisoners missing from