Topic: blasphemy law

• Catholic critic of blasphemy law is shot dead in Pakistan

  Posted on 02 March 2011. Tags: blasphemy law, blasphemy laws, Pakistan, Pakistani Christians, Salman Taseer, Shahbaz Bhatti

  Shahbaz Bhatti, Minister for Minorities, had received death threats from extremists but refused to stop speaking out

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• Pakistani Christian leader: death threats won’t stop me speaking out

  Posted on 16 February 2011. Tags: Asia Bibi, blasphemy law, Middle East, Middle East Christians, Pakistan, Shahbaz Bhatti

  Shahbaz Bhatti, the first Christian to hold a cabinet post in Pakistan, vows to continue opposing blasphemy law despite threats

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• Pope urges Pakistan to scrap blasphemy law

  Posted on 11 January 2011. Tags: blasphemy law, Pakistan, Pope Benedict XVI, religious freedom, Salman Taseer, state of the world address

  In state of the world address Pope Benedict says threats to religious freedom abound, even in the west

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• Pakistan’s president ‘wants to abolish blasphemy law’, says cardinal

  Posted on 02 December 2010. Tags: Asia Bibi, Asif Ali Zardari, blasphemy law, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, Pakistan, Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue

  Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran made the comment after meeting President Zardari in Pakistan

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• Pope calls for release of Christian woman sentenced to death

  Posted on 18 November 2010. Tags: Asia Bibi, blasphemy law, Pakistan, Pope Benedict XVI

  Pope Benedict XVI expresses ‘spiritual closeness’ to 37-year-old woman convicted on charges of blasphemy in Pakistan

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• Pope calls for release of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death in Pakistan

  Posted on 17 November 2010. Tags: Asia Bibi, blasphemy law, Pakistan, Pope Benedict XVI

  Pope Benedict XVI asks that the Pakistani government release Asia Bibi and expresses his spiritual closeness to her and her family

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• Christianity is the most persecuted religion, say European bishops

  Posted on 07 October 2010. Tags: Aid to the Church in Need, Archbishop Louis Sako, blasphemy law, COMECE, European Union, Iraq, Lady Ashton, Open Doors International, persecution

  COMECE urges EU foreign ministry to set up a ‘religion unit’ to promote cause of religious freedom more effectively

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• Christians accused of blasphemy shot dead in Pakistan

  Posted on 22 July 2010. Tags: Bishop Joseph Coutts, blasphemy law, Faisalabad, Fr Pascal Paulus, Pakistan

  Two brothers charged with distributing anti-Islamic pamphlets are killed as they arrive in court

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