Christian nurses saved from mob after blasphemy claim in Pakistan
Bishop Rehmat leads Catholic delegation to meet police as priest claims nurses are being targeted by unfounded allegations
Bishop Indrias Rehmat (right) with a Catholic delegation at Civil Lines Police Station in Faisalabad on April 9. (Photo supplied)
Two Christian nurses were rescued by policemen from an enraged mob after being accused of blasphemy by their hospital’s staff in Pakistan.
Staff nurse Mariam Lal and student nurse Newish Urooj were detained by police after a first information report (FIR) under section 295-B of the blasphemy law was made by Dr. Mirza Muhammad Ali of Civil Hospital, Faisalabad.
Pakistani Capuchin named new bishop of Quetta
Khalid Rehmat is the first Pakistani Capuchin priest to be named a bishop in the country
Capuchin Father Khalid Rehmat, who edited Lahore Archdiocese s bimonthly magazine Catholic Naqeeb, was appointed bishop of Quetta on Jan. 1. (Photo supplied)
Pope Francis has named Capuchin Father Khalid Rehmat as the new vicar apostolic of Quetta in Pakistan s restive Balochistan province.
The Vatican announced the appointment on Jan. 1, making some local Catholics call it a New Year gift from Pope Francis.
Catholics worldwide took to social media to congratulate the bishop-elect.
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Swipe shows the real face of interfaith dialogue and the brutal face of social media. (Photo supplied)
Arafat Mazhar rejects sensational reviews of his newly released film on Pakistan s blasphemy laws. Feel like giving a course to all news platforms outside Pakistan on how NOT to cover conversation on blasphemy laws. @Reuters coverage of @swipefilm is so non-nuanced and insensitive and is now being printed in every next paper in the world, the filmmaker stated in a recent tweet. This is why we need local publications to write and cover a local film which is made for the local community. So if you re a writer/reviewer who doesn t have a white-savior gaze, please cover/analyze/review