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Christians in Pakistan (phase)



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Manufacturing Date: 2014

Pakistan lies in South Asia and is bordered by Iran, Afghanistan, China and India. The nation achieved independence in 1947 following the tip of British colonial rule in India. The founding father, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, envisioned a rustic – though based mostly on Islam – was to be concurrently pluralistic, accepting believers of different faiths: Hindus, Sikhs and Christians. Right now ninety-seven-percent of this society of over 180-million individuals is Muslim. The remaining two p.c are Christians, although certainly not new to the non secular panorama with the arrival of St Thomas touchdown within the yr 52AD. However this historic presence, Christians endure every day persecution and discrimination. Maybe the best struggling is the underlying societal hostility, the every day discriminations similar to denial of providers, entry to political voice or limitation to instructional alternatives. The Catholic Bishop’s Nationwide Council for Justice and Peace, studies that roughly thirty p.c of younger Christians and Hindus endure sexual harassment at work. The best risk, nonetheless, to Christianity is the Blasphemy Legislation below which the penalty for desecrating the Koran is a life sentence, the penalty for blasphemy towards the prophet Mohammad is demise. What’s the future? The extremist forces appear to be gaining floor in the mean time – not by successful the minds of the individuals, however by drive, by violence, by utilizing forceful and violent techniques. The Christians search to discover a future and what they name a ‘Dialogue of Life’ with their Muslim neighbors.

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