Yousaf Benjamin

On April 28, Archbishop Khalid Rehmat inaugurated the Silver Jubilee year celebrations of a Catholic high school in Lahore run by the Apostolic Carmel (AC) missionary sisters.

On April 24, Archbishop Joseph Arshad visited the “House of Wisdom” in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, a residential formation center run by the Archdiocese of Islamabad-Rawalpindi, to review students’ progress and reaffirm the Church’s commitment to higher education as a pathway for social and community development.

On Good Shepherd Sunday, April 26, 2026, Archbishop Khalid Rehmat, OFM Cap, of Lahore inaugurated a Vocation Day Camp at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church in Aadha, Sialkot, in Pakistan’s Punjab province.

Fr. Shehzad Shareef OFM, a member of the formation team at Dar Ul Naeem, a Franciscan formation house in Lahore, led a comprehensive learning seminar for over eighty religious sisters from various congregations at the St. Paul Communication Centre on April 25, 2026.

On April 23, in a significant homecoming, Archbishop Khalid Rehmat of the Lahore Archdiocese visited St. Mary’s Catholic Church at the Capuchin Custody House in Gulberg, Lahore, where he had previously served as parish priest and later as Custos of the Capuchin Order until January 2021, when Pope Francis appointed him Vicar Apostolic of Quetta.

While many see a parish priest as a man of the altar, Fr. Khalil Maqsood, a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Faisalabad in eastern Pakistan and parish priest of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Samundri, has redefined his vocation on the front lines of justice.

Metropolitan Archbishop Khalid Rehmat of Lahore, Pakistan has issued a call for the protection and strengthening of the family unit as the spiritual and social foundation for the next generation.

The Catholic Church in Pakistan organized a nationwide day of prayer on Saturday, April 11, 2026, to coincide with high-level diplomatic peace talks between the United States and Iran held in Islamabad (the capital city of Pakistan).

A Catholic prelate has commended Pakistan’s leadership for securing a temporary reprieve in the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

A Catholic youth group in eastern Pakistan organized a peace assembly and prayer gathering on April 7, 2026, calling for immediate global intervention to end ongoing wars and protect civilian lives.