
Mentally ill Catholic woman jailed on blasphemy charge in Pakistan
A 60-year-old Catholic woman who has been treated for mental illness was jailed on blasphemy charges this week in Lahore, Pakistan, her son said.

A 60-year-old Catholic woman who has been treated for mental illness was jailed on blasphemy charges this week in Lahore, Pakistan, her son said.
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The leader of the Evangelical Fellowship of India says that time-bound global efforts that continue to shape priorities across many Christian networks require urgent change as we face massive global political and economic realignment, medium-term instability, and societal rupture.

More than a billion people, including 26 million Christians in the world’s most populous country, will be glued to their televisions on Tuesday to watch the results of the national elections. While exit polls suggest that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is likely to secure a third consecutive term, Christians are hoping and praying for respite, having experienced the worst attacks over the past three years under the Hindu nationalist government.

An elderly Christian man attacked by a Muslim mob in Pakistan over a false blasphemy accusation succumbed to his injuries at 12:30 a.m. Monday (June 3), his son said.

In a historic first in Pakistan, a Christian female officer has been promoted to the rank of brigadier in the Pakistan Army, garnering praise and felicitations from people across the country. Colonel Helen Mary Roberts has become the first female one-star general from the minority communities in Pakistan’s history.

As the United Methodist Church (UMC) recently made decisions at its general conference regarding the ordination of homosexual pastors, among other issues, it has stirred repercussions in Korea. Among Korean-American Methodist pastors, there are divergent reactions. Some pastors within the Korean Methodist Church argue that the church should sever ties with the UMC.

With suspects in a homicide case pressuring the victim’s relatives to make false statements, police in Pakistan are declining to arrest them in the case of a Catholic tortured to death by his Muslim employers, sources said.

A court in Pakistan denied a Christian victim of fake conversion to change the religious designation of Islam and the Muslim name that his Muslim employers fraudulently registered on his National Identity Card, sources said.