![Bishop Samson Shukardin.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/0603Pakistan-e1717424545945.jpg)
PAKISTAN: Church leaders welcome increase in legal marriage age in Pakistan
THE Catholic Church in Pakistan has applauded an amendment to the Christian Marriage Act raising the legal…
![Bishop Samson Shukardin.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/0603Pakistan-e1717424545945.jpg)
PAKISTAN: Desperate plea for Christian man put on death row
The head of the Catholic Church in Pakistan has lambasted a court for passing the death sentence…
![Archbishop Joseph Arshad and Senator Tahir Khalil Sindu visiting the Sargodha police headquarters after the attack.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/0528Pakistan-e1716892902527.jpeg)
NEWS BRIEFING: Widow of Pakistan mob attack victim dies
Alla Rakhi, the widow of the Nazir Gill Masih, has died. Their family home in Sargodha was…
![Bishop Samson Shukardin.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/0603Pakistan-e1717424545945.jpg)
PAKISTAN: International community must act to stop abuse of blasphemy law – bishop
A leading Catholic bishop has made an impassioned plea calling on world powers to come together and…
![Archbishop Joseph Arshad and Senator Tahir Khalil Sindu visiting the Sargodha police headquarters after the attack.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/0528Pakistan-e1716892902527.jpeg)
NEWS BRIEFING: Blasphemy victim dies in hospital
Christian man Nazir Gill Masih died in hospital today (3rd June) after being beaten by a mob…
![A kiln worker in Faisalabad, Pakistan.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/0529Pakistan-scaled-e1716989552884.jpg)
UK/PAKISTAN: Parliamentary report slams ‘consistent pattern of sexual abuse’ against Pakistan’s 1 million bonded labourers
A fresh parliamentary report has found evidence of women and girls working in brick kilns being subjected…
![Archbishop Joseph Arshad and Senator Tahir Khalil Sindu visiting the Sargodha police headquarters after the attack.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/0528Pakistan-e1716892902527.jpeg)
PAKISTAN: Police accuse brutally assaulted Christian man of blasphemy
Pakistan’s police have launched a blasphemy probe into a Christian man, two days after a violent mob…
![The Jaranwala atrocity.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/0409Pakistan_Jaranwala-attack-e1712669452289.jpg)
PAKISTAN: Still no justice for Jaranwala victims – bishop
A bishop in Pakistan has expressed his disappointment with the authorities for failing to bring to justice…
![Father Abid Tanveer celebrating Mass at the UK office of ACN.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/1010Pakistan-scaled-e1696929435573.jpg)
PAKISTAN: The West must insist on justice for Jaranwala victims
Governments in the West must intervene to demand justice be done for the victims of the “worst…
![The aftermath of the mob violence in Jaranwala.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0926Pakistan-e1695739039745.jpg)
PAKISTAN: Catholic charity announces emergency aid to riot victims
A Catholic charity is providing emergency relief to hundreds of people whose livelihoods were destroyed in the…
![Bishop Indrias Rehmat of Faisalabad presiding at Mass held outside the torched St Paul’s Church, Jaranwala (© Caritas Pakistan Faisalabad)](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0821Pakistan_1-c-Caritas-Pakistan-Faisalabad-e1692695176618.jpg)
PAKISTAN: Parishioners gather for Mass outside their torched church
There were tears of sadness and fear in Pakistan yesterday (20th August) as a crowd of 700…
![A building attacked during the riots.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0817Pakistan2-e1692289234645.jpg)
PAKISTAN: 1,000 frightened and homeless Christians forced to sleep rough
Nearly 1,000 panic-stricken Christians in Pakistan spent last night in fields of sugar cane having narrowly escaped…