THANKFUL FOR GOD’S DELIVERANCE: PAKISTANI CHRISTIAN GIRL CLEARED OF CHARGES
(The following is the November 23, 2012 edition of Faith on Freedom, the e-newsletter of the Religious Liberty Program of the Institute on Religion and Democracy. If you have any interest in the...
View ArticlePersecution and Poverty: The Double Suffering of Pakistani Christians
(Photo credit: Institute on Religion and Democracy) By Faith McDonnell (@Cuchulain09) This week I was a guest on Secure Freedom Radio, which you can hear at www.securefreedomradio.org, to talk about...
View ArticlePodcast: Asia Bibi Appeal Case Again Delayed
Dennis Crowley has an update on the latest appeal proceedings in the case of Asia Bibi, a Christian mother of five sentenced to death on allegations of blasphemy. Her appeal has been delayed three...
View ArticleAsia Bibi: Imprisoned in Pakistan
Asia Bibi is a Pakistani woman who has been imprisoned for 7 years as a result of false blasphemy charges leveled against her when she used her Muslim coworkers’ water glass. She was accused of...
View ArticleThe Forgotten Freedom in the International Women’s Rights Movement
Editor’s note: This op-ed was originally published here in full by The Billy Graham Evangelisitc Association’s Decision Magazine. The notion of a women’s rights movement that overlooks a woman’s right...
View ArticleCelebrating Murder of a “Blasphemer”
Last Sunday a mosque outside Baltimore reportedly honored the assassin of a Pakistani statesman who criticized his country’s blasphemy law. According to Ehsan Rehan in the Rabwah Times, an online...
View ArticleRemembering Our Sisters on International Women’s Day
In this 7 minute video, I celebrate the freedom, opportunity, and equality with which women are blessed in the West, especially in the United States, and remind you of our sisters around the world who...
View ArticleBrutal Blasphemy Laws
What if I told you that there are times when Christians, people of various other faiths, as well as atheists are working together for the same goal? One such issue that brings these groups together in...
View ArticleIRD Rejoices Over Asia Bibi Acquittal, Concerned for Pakistani Christians
Institute on Religion and Democracy Press Release October 31, 2018 Contact: Chelsen Vicari, office: 202-682-4131, cell: 540-239-2170, e-mail:cvicari@TheIRD.org Washington, DC—The Institute on Religion...
View Article7 Things Evangelicals can be Thankful for this Thanksgiving
One observation that I have noticed since starting my annual Thanksgiving blog entry five years ago is that no matter neither the administration in office nor the state of the economy, the national...
View ArticleFaith’s Top 10 International Religious Liberty Stories of 2018
What was the big international religious liberty story of 2018? As IRD’s International Religious Liberty Program Director, I think that it is that American Christians have a long way to go to fulfill...
View ArticleBishop Michael Nazir-Ali on the Needs of Pakistan’s Christian Minority
The former Anglican bishop of Rochester, England, and of Raiwind, Pakistan, Michael Nazir-Ali, discussed attitudes toward the Christian faith in Pakistan in a presentation to the Christian media...
View ArticlePray for Pakistani Christians
These devotions are also available on the GAFCON website In a population of over 180 million, Pakistan’s Christians make up only about two percent. They’re disenfranchised, harassed, and persecuted....
View ArticleChristian Sentenced to Death in Pakistan. . . Again!
All the world heard the horrific story of Asia Bibi (also known as Aasiya Noreen). The Pakistani Christian wife and mother, finally acquitted after 8 years, was sentenced to death on trumped up...
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