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Nepal’s Christians need new laws as cults wreak havoc‍

A pastor accused of evangelizing in Sarlahi, a remote province in southern Nepal, was beaten by an angry mob on March 24 as religious minorities in the country face escalating levels of persecution. Meanwhile, the organizer of a retreat held in Kathmandu Valley from April 11-13 had to change the ve

‘Today God has answered their prayers’: Pakistan releases Asia Bibi

Pakistani authorities freed Asia Bibi, a Catholic woman acquitted of blasphemy, and she has flown to Canada to join her family at a secret address. Her release was confirmed on May 8 by Wilson Chowdhry of the British Pakistani Christian Association, who has been in almost daily contact with Ashiq Masih, Bibi’s husband. In a […]

Communal harmony among Lankan Christian, Muslim minorities

In the aftermath of the horrific Easter Sunday multiple bomb blasts by Islamic terrorists on 3 Churches and 3 luxury hotels in Sri Lanka claiming lives of over 250 people including 50 foreigners and injuring hundreds, the Churches were closed. Lankan Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith has now called for Churches to re-open for Sunday services from […]

No Mass for Sri Lanka’s Catholics; no veils for Muslim women, Card. Ranjith: the first Masses on May 5th

The effects of Sri Lanka’s Easter suicide bombings reverberated across two faiths. Catholics shut out of their churches for fear of new attacks, left with only a televised Mass, and Muslim women ordered to stop wearing veils in public. Many across the nation knelt before their televisions as Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, the Archbishop of Colombo, […]

Colombo Cardinal condemns bombs attacks in Sri Lanka

The Archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Albert Malcolm Ranjith, condemned the deadly attacks on churches and luxury hotels on Easter Sunday (April 21) in a series of bomb blasts that claimed at least 290 lives and leaving more than 500 people injured. The police said that it was the worst violence to hit the island since […]

Mass funeral held for Sri Lanka blasts victims

The first mass funeral was held in Sri Lanka on 23rd April as the country marks a day of mourning for the victims of the Easter Sunday bombings that killed 350 people. The mass funeral was held at the St Sebastian’s Church in Negombo, north of Colombo, which was one of the places targeted in […]

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