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PAKISTAN: Asia Bibi is Free
Asia Bibi has been freed from prison after spending eight years on death row for blasphemy, according…
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PAKISTAN: “Help us leave” pleads Asia Bibi’s family
“We no longer have even anything to eat…” With Asia Bibi and her family fearing for their…
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PAKISTAN: Asia Bibi’s family thanks God for her acquittal
Asia daughter says “I can’t wait to hug my mother” Asia Bibi’s husband and daughter have today…
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SYRIA: Your help “revives our faith and hope”, say Christian widows
Syria aid recipients highlight impact of ACN emergency support Young widows in Syria have expressed their personal…
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UK: Pray for my mother’s release
The daughter of a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan broke down in tears…
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PAKISTAN-UK: Asia Bibi acquittal could be close, says family
The family of a Christian woman fighting a death sentence in Pakistan believe the country’s Supreme Court…
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UK: Asia Bibi’s family to speak at ACN events
The husband and daughter of Asia Bibi, the first woman to be sentenced to death for blasphemy…
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UK: Special Pakistan blasphemy guests to join events line-up
A father and daughter from Pakistan will be coming to the UK to give first-hand testimony about…
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NIGER: Growing fears that kidnapped priest is in hands of Islamist extremist
A priest has spoken out about the shock kidnapping of one of his fellow missionaries in Niger…
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PAKISTAN: Authorities are failing Christian women threatened with rape and death, says Catholic solicitor
Courts and police are not protecting the rights of religious minorities A female Catholic solicitor from Pakistan…
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SYRIA: ‘Plan to oust Christians from the region’, says archbishop
Archbishop Behnan Hindo of Hassaké-Nisibi (© ACN) Urgent appeal for West to save country’s religious…
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IRAQ: Step up security to protect us from Islamist extremists – says bishop
Syriac-Orthodox Archbishop Timotheus Mousa Al Shamani from Iraq (© ACN) As Daesh (ISIS) launches a…