Amnesty International has welcomed the decision to grant bail to Rimsha Masih, but says Pakistan must urgently reform its blasphemy laws.

Groups in Islamabad are continuing to lobby the Pakistani government in the case of a Christian young woman charged with blasphemy.

Christians and other leaders in Pakistan have spoken out against the government's move to relegate issues regarding religious minorities.

The Presiding Bishop of the ecumenical Church of Pakistan has condemned the brutal murder, by religious fanatics, of Shahbaz Bhatti on 2 March 2011 in Islamabad.