Christian Teen faces jail for Kaaba post

Christian Teen faces jail for Kaaba post

ISLAMABAD  – A Pakistani Christian teen has been charged with blasphemy over a ‘derogatory picture’ of Islam’s holiest place, according to an AFP report. Nabeel Chohan was arrested for liking and sharing on social media a disparaging photograph of the Kaaba, the building in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, that Muslims turn and pray to five times […]

Boy raped, murdered, police say Heart Attack!

Boy raped, murdered, police say Heart Attack!

How do the poor minorities fare in Pakistan? Can they expect justice from the local police? Here is an incident that will help you form your own opinion: A fourteen year old Pakistani boy was found murdered and hanging from a tree (after having been raped, say locals)  in a rural area of Pakistan. Interestingly, […]

Pastor Bill buys weapons to defeat ISIS

Pastor Bill buys weapons to defeat ISIS

 A New York City pastor has spent about $4,000 of his own money to supply weapons to a Christian militia fighting against the Islamic State terrorist organization in Iraq, according to media reports.  William ‘Bill’ Devlin, a pastor, often travels to help Christians and others persecuted in the most dangerous places on Earth. He says […]

147 year old discrimination against Christians to go!

147 year old discrimination against Christians to go!

New Delhi: The Union law ministry has cleared a proposal to amend a 147-year-old legal provision that compels Christian couples to wait for at least two years for divorce. The period of separation is one year for other religions. The ministry has decided to reduce the waiting period from two years to one year in […]

Nepal ‘clamping down’ on Christians, say Adventists

Nepal ‘clamping down’ on Christians, say Adventists

The leader of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Nepal has called for prayers amid a state clampdown on evangelistic outreach, including the distribution of religious literature and even having a Bible in a Christian orphanage. All evangelistic activity is prohibited under a new Nepalese Constitution that came into force in September 2015. Article 31(3) of […]

USA: Muslim Refugees preferred to Christians?

USA: Muslim Refugees preferred to Christians?

The United States government is processing an unbelievably low number of Christian refugees despite the on-going genocide at the hands of the Islamic State terror group in Iraq and Syria, the American Centre for Law and Justice reports. The conservative law group cited numbers from the Refugee Processing Centre, noting that while the U.S. has […]

Auto-rickshaws and following Jesus

Auto-rickshaws and following Jesus

Experience sharing By KATIE By KATIE Since I have been here in South Asia, I have discovered everything is completely different from anything I’ve known before. The language, food, architecture, culture, people, dress and the transportation all are different than in the States. For instance, in the United States, we have a lot of traffic […]

Bangladeshi Islamists brutally kill Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, liberal Muslims

Bangladeshi Islamists brutally kill Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, liberal Muslims

DHAKA (Bangladesh) Unidentified men hacked to death a Christian grocer in Bangladesh’s north-west on Sunday (June 5), say international media reports. The numbers of attacks on religious minorities and secular activists by Islamist militants are growing. “Sunil Gomes was hacked to death at his grocery store just near a church at Bonpara village,” Shafiqul Islam, […]

Church says, ‘play on’: Agnes of God

Church says, ‘play on’: Agnes of God

BOMBAY: The bluff has been called. The tunnel vision of fundamentalist groups like the Secular Christian Forum is not the voice of Christians or the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church has clarified that it is not seeking a ban on the play ‘Agnes of God’ although it is offended by its promotional material. The theatre […]

Archbishop speaks of family in Patna run-up to Jubilee

Archbishop speaks of family in Patna run-up to Jubilee

PATNA: The Catholic Church is gearing up for celebrating the jubilee year of the ‘Divine mercy’ , and Bihar plans to celebrate it with a slew of ‘events’ in its various parishes. The Most Reverend Archbishop of Patna William D’Souza SJ on Wednesday, speaking to some 200 delegates, and many ‘youth’ from different parishes, chose […]

Christians ‘share’ of India’s population on the decline

Christians ‘share’ of India’s population on the decline

The Census ‘numbers’ are intriguing, actually indicating that contrary to hype and ‘conversion’ allegations levelled against the religious minority by the RSS and right wing Hindu groups, the total percentage of Christians in the India have actually declined a fraction. Nearly half of the India’s Christian population lives in south India, shows the Census 2011 data […]