Samanabad is posh residential area in Lahore city where property value has boomed in recent years and house where Walter Fazal resides is also estimated in millions. It is reported that Fazal has turned down offers of many real estate builders to sell his property.
On May 9, Muslim servant Riaz Moh

Samanabad is posh residential area in Lahore city where property value has boomed in recent years and house where Walter Fazal resides is also estimated in millions. It is reported that Fazal has turned down offers of many real estate builders to sell his property.
On May 9, Muslim servant Riaz Moh

New Delhi, SVM News, May 18, 2007: Neiphiu Rio, Chief Minister of Nagaland State in India said that the so-called freedom of religion bills are basically directed against Christianity, having been used to prevent conversion to this religion, and to harass Christian missionaries, who have renderd

The claims made in press conference by some Christian leaders "That instead of this threat, Christians shall remain in Charsadda" seemed less to satisfy feared Christian families of this remote town bordering tribal belt of Waziristan.
About 50 to 60 Christian families settled here and mostly enga

NWFP is border province to Afghanistan and touches boundaries with tribal belt of Waziristan. The remote town of Charsadda came in world limelight few weeks back when suicide attack killed dozens of participants of a rally addressed by Home Minister of Pakistan.
The threatening letter copies were

Seven people arrested earlier in the case had admitted that the brutal attack was carried out at Virendra`s behest.
Virendra, stated to be the mastermind behind the attack, is VHP`s Organising Secretary for Jaipur city. He is also an employee of the Employees` State Insurance (ESI) Hospital, from

Naturally the pope and Khatami also discussed the Middle East and the problem of Christians in the region and particularly in Iran. "Regarding the Middle East, - reads a Holy See press office statement – the need for strong initiatives by the international community to set up serious negotiations

An assault on Massey by 20-25 VHP activists was recorded by TV cameras on 29 April 2007 in Jaipur, Rajasthan, and broadcast around India. The Fact Finding Team, organized by the All India Christian Council (aicc) and Satbhav Morch (Brotherhood Front) Jaipur, appealed to the Rajasthan Government to b

urging him not to give in to intimidation. Yesterday morning, Benedict XVI made a personal phone call to the Archbishop, followed later in the day by an official telegram. In the note written on behalf of the pope by the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the pontiff also urges

At 1.30 PM, in vicinity of House of Chief Minister of Rajistan in historic city of Jaipur, Hindu radicals in masks attacked Pastor named Walter Masih in front of his children and wife.
In footage shown on Aajtak TV channels, Pastor cried for help but no one came to rescue on fear of radical element

Vatican City (AsiaNews) – April 27, 2007. A pastoral synod by exploring doctrinal reasoning aims to extend and strengthen the practice of our encounter with the Word of God. That is the objective of the next general assembly of the synod of bishops, which will be dedicated to the theme of "The Wo

Instead, Maulana Mohammad Umer, imam at a local mosque, filed a complaint against Mr Masih under Section 295–A and 295–C (commonly known as the blasphemy law) of the Pakistan Penal Code. Penalties include the death sentence for anyone who offends Islam's prophet and sacred texts.
The Police als

KASHMIR, INDIA (ANS) – April 19, 2007. An active member of the Salem Voice Ministries underground House Church in Kashmir was brutally murdered on Saturday, April 14, according to news sources in India.
Manzoor Ahmad Chat, 33, was beheaded by Hizbul militants on Saturday before dawn. Local polic

The arrests brought to 10 the number of suspects in custody, all people in their late teens or early 20s, said Halil Ibrahim Dasoz, governor of Malatya, the city in central Turkey where the killings took place.
Malatya is known as hotbed of Turkish nationalism and as the hometown of Mehmet Ali Agca

Sources told the All India Christian Council that, while worship led by Pastor Yona Babu at Shirad Valley was going on, a group of 60 people belonging to Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council) forcefully entered the room and sat among church members.
Pastor Babu reported to the All India Chris