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‘Lunatic’ divorce bill draws backlash in Pakistan
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ISLAMABAD (UCAN): Pakistani Church leaders and activists have slammed the latest draft bill on Christian matrimonial laws for using offensive and derogatory terms. |
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Province offers funds for renovation of Karachi cathedral
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KARACHI (UCAN): The government of Sindh province, Pakistan, is providing more than US$1.5 million ($11.7 million) toward the renovation of iconic St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Karachi which will be done over three years, beginning with the interior. |
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Seventy murders over Pakistan’s blasphemy law
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WASHINGTON (CNS): Seventy people accused of blasphemy in Pakistan have been murdered in extrajudicial actions by mobs however, the government itself has not executed anyone found guilty at trial according to Peter Jacob, executive director of the Centre for Social Justice based in Lahore, Pakistan. |
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Pakistan’s bishops meet prime minister
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ISLAMABAD (UCAN): A delegation from the Pakistan Catholic Bishops Conference (PCBC) met with the country’s prime minister, Imran Khan, on July 4 and handed him a check for US$35,250 ($252,567) for the construction of dams for the Diamer-Bhasha and Mahmand water reservoirs. |
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Battling Chinese marriage scams in Pakistan
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LAHORE (UCAN): Capuchin Father Morris Jalal was alarmed when one of his catechists shared the news that a young female member of his parish in Lahore, in Pakistan’s Punjab province, was about to marry a Chinese businessman, especially in light of recent stories about human trafficking between the two countries. |
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Victim of forced conversion holds to Christian faith
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KARACHI (UCAN): “I was a Christian. I am a Christian and I will remain a Christian,” Neha Pervaiz told a judge at the City Court in Karachi, Pakistan, while giving a statement on May 16. |
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Asia Bibi leaves Pakistan and joins family in Canada
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Lahore (UCAN): Asia Bibi, the Catholic woman who was acquitted of blasphemy after spending eight years on death row in Pakistan, left for Canada on the evening of May 7, her lawyer confirmed. |
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Pakistani lawmaker asks pope to help end conflict with India
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LAHORE (UCAN): Pope Francis was asked by Sunila Ruth, a Christian member National Assembly of Pakistan’s ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, to “actively support and call upon the Indian government” to join dialogue efforts to help end the conflict between the nuclear-armed nations. |
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Asia Bibi blasphemy acquittal upheld
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ISLAMABAD (CNS): On January 29, Pakistan’s Supreme Court upheld its acquittal of Asia Bibi, a Catholic woman who had been previously sentenced to hang for blasphemy. Tehreek-e-Labbaaik, an extremist group, had challenged the acquittal (Sunday Examiner, February 3). |
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Pakistan court to hear challenge to Asia Bibi acquittal
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LAHORE (UCAN): Pakistan’s Supreme Court will hear a review petition challenging the acquittal of Catholic death row inmate, Asia Bibi, on charges of blasphemy, it announced on January 24. |
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