On a humid Tuesday evening, Sept. 2, the chants softened into hymns. After an unprecedented 17 days of fasting, prayers, and sleepless vigils, the Christians of Jaranwala folded their placards and did something they had not done since Aug. 16: they went home. They did not leave in defeat. They left […]
On August 15, the National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP), a Catholic Church body, released a devastating study titled “Hope Behind Bars.” Its findings uncover a grim reality: Pakistan’s prisons are not merely places of confinement, but sites of deep-rooted prejudice where minority inmates — particularly Christians, Hindus, and Sikhs […]
For fifteen long years, a woman in Pakistan—whose name remains hidden for her safety—lived in the shadows of a bureaucratic refusal and societal hostility, all because she chose to follow her heart and her conscience. In January 2009, she embraced Christianity of her own free will and, four months later, married […]