Archbishop Arshad said in a press conference, "21 churches were attacked, more than 250 Christians' homes were burned, the cross was desecrated and churches and homes of Christians were looted.”
Dr. Tasneem Ahsan is the first Pakistani to win the Laureate Award, among others, given by the Endocrine Society of America for her outstanding services.
On October 8, a Christian government official in Pakistan was brutally assaulted by a group of lawyers in his office in Toba Tek Singh district, but the police failed to arrest the influential culprits.
Pakistani Catholics are overjoyed with the news that Akash Bashir, a lay Catholic and former pupil of Don Bosco Technical Institute of Lahore, has become the first official candidate to sainthood with the 'Servant of God' title.