The latest case of an 11 year-old Pakistani girl with Downs Syndrome who was arrested for allegedly defiling the Koran is just one of many incidents in the past few years that involved the targeting of Christian children by Islamic extremists in Pakistan.
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Vatican and Bishop of Islamabad Mourn the Murder of Catholic Minister in Pakistan
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Church authorities are expressing shock and sadness over the killing of Shabhaz Bhatti, Pakistan’s lone minister for minorities, who was gunned down in a hail of bullets as he left his mother’s home in Islamabad yesterday morning.
Pope Pleads for Christian Woman’s Life
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Pope Benedict XVI made an urgent appeal yesterday to the leaders of Pakistan to spare the life of a Christian mother of five who has been sentenced to death for blasphemy on a trumped up charge of insulting Mohammed.
