Pakistan sewage workers’ widows pressured to drop criminal negligence cases
“I so wish wish I hadn’t pushed him to go that night”…. Widow Mariam Bibi, mother of six at the age of 32, desperately wishes she . . . Read More
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Her co-hostage freed a year before; nun meets Pope after Islamists let her leave Mali
After almost 5 years as a captive of an Al Qaeda-linked Islamist group in Mali in West Africa, a Colombian nun, Gloria Cecilia Narvaez Argoti, has . . . Read More
Pakistani Senator alleges police collusion with gang whose gun attack injures seven, one critically
The most senior political leader of Pakistan’s minority Christians has complained of what he calls ‘prejudicial treatment’ by police in the way the force responded to . . . Read More
Pakistani Christian couple acquitted of blasphemy after 7 years on death row
The Pakistani woman who replaced Christian Asia Bibi in her prison cell on death row, a mother of 4, Shaguftah Kausar, has – after a dozen . . . Read More
Boko Haram ‘flies flag 2 hours from Abuja’ warned Governor, as Nigerian captive teen turns 18
Today (14 May), Leah Sharibu is 18 years old; it’s her fourth birthday as the captive of Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP). Nigerian Leah is . . . Read More
Death threats, by Islamic State in Sinai, against Egyptian Copt sons who mourn dad
Fears that ‘Islamic State’ once again threatens the lives of some of the Middle East’s largest Christian population have emerged again, after the radical militant group . . . Read More
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