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Rimsha could be the start of change in Pakistan

September 12, 2012

The mood in Pakistan is supportive of her. The government must not lose this opportunity to address the misuse of blasphemy laws

Rimsha Masih released on bail and flown to secret location by helicopter

September 10, 2012

Pakistani Christian girl accused of blasphemy was whisked away by helicopter for her own safety

A Muslim group forbids tomatoes ‘because they are Christian’. Will dialogue with Muslims ever be possible? Perhaps: but it won’t be easy

August 29, 2012

There are sane and moderate Muslims: but will they ever predominate?

An 11-year-old girl with Down’s syndrome has fallen foul of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. Should we really continue to support this anti-Christian country?

August 20, 2012

What will Mr Cameron say or do about this gross barbarity? Just carry on supporting Pakistan regardless?

Pakistan is ruled by mob justice. And the authorities are too scared to do anything about it

July 13, 2012

The setting on fire of a man who had supposedly desecrated the Koran shows again that extremists are in charge

‘Ten million people now want to kill me’

June 14, 2012

Asia Bibi became the most reviled figure in Pakistan when she was falsely accused of blasphemy three years ago, says Hal St John

Shahbaz Bhatti is not the only martyr in the struggle against Pakistan’s blasphemy laws

April 26, 2011

In 1998 Bishop John Joseph committed suicide in protest at the terrible laws. Thirteen years on, the government still buries its head in the sand

The Government, says Cardinal O’Brien, has an ‘anti-Christian foreign policy’. Good for him: so it does

March 16, 2011

Why are we giving hundreds of millions to brutal regimes like Pakistan and northern Sudan?

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