CAPC Response to COVID-19 in PakistanLike other countries, Pakistan also became a victim of Covid-19 and already poor people became the worst victims of this pandemic. Pakistan is already placed among the 25th poorest countries in the world. The poverty rate has increased in Pakistan from 34% to 39%. Over 64% of the population of...

Arzoo – Another Chapter in the Saga Karachi Pakistan: Arzoo’s hearing was fixed for 9am, Monday September 13, 2021, and Canadian Aid to Persecuted  Christians (CAPC)representatives were closely in touch with her father Raja Lal and mother Rita. The family was disguised and present in the court parking lot, waiting in a car from 8.30 am...

Response to Afghan BelieversWith the departure of foreign troops and the Taliban taking over the government, millions of normal, average people in Afghanistan are plunged into fear for their future.For the past twenty years the economy has been heavily dependent on international aid and NGO’s providing services and employment for thousands of Afghans. Many are...

Pakistan ministry rejects age bar on Islamic conversionPakistan’s Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony has rejected a bill that proposed regulations on conversions to Islam.“Clauses related to the 18-year age bar on religion conversion, appearance before a judge, and a 90-day waiting period in the proposed bill are anti-Sharia, illegal and in violation of...

14-Year-Old Christian Girl Kidnapped While on Her Way to School. A 14-year-old Christian girl named Princess Francis, a resident of Haripur city in KPK province of Pakistan, was kidnapped on August 3, 2021 by a man named Muhammad Zulqarnain while enroute to her school . She was a very bright 9th grade student. When she...

Aina: Three-year-old Christian Girl Raped in School Raiwand City, Pakistan. Recently the horrific incidents of the rape and murder of minor girls are on the rise and girls from minorities are always an easy prey in this regard; minorities have become “children of lesser God” in Pakistan.There is a Christian colony known as Kale Da...

14-Year-Old Christian Girl Kidnapped & Converted to Islam Abductions, rapes, forced conversions and marriages of minor Christian girls are becoming more common and more frequent. In many cities/villages, powerful Muslim men are kidnapping minor girls and then going to a religious institution to convert them to Islam and marry them.According to laws in the different...

LAHORE PAKISTAN On April 1, 2021, at 10-11 PM, Maham was kidnapped when she went into the fields in front of her home to go to the toilet. In poor families there are no toilets at home, and so everyone is forced to use fields or open spaces. When her father realized after some time...

A Christian couple, Shagufta Kausar and Shafqat Emmanuel, are currently facing the death penalty.  They are charged with sending ‘blasphemous’ texts to a mosque cleric from a phone sim card registered in Shagufta’s name.  The couple has consistently denied all allegations.  They believe that somehow Shagufta’s National Identity Card was compromised and misused against them....

Zafar Bhatti Story Zafar is a 56-year-old Pakistani pastor who has been in Rawalpindi’s Central Jail since July 2012, when he was falsely charged with sending blasphemous text messages. On May 3, 2017, Zafar was sentenced to life imprisonment for blasphemy, a charge he denies. The mobile phone in question was not even registered to...