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Last Sunday I attended a church service presided over by the Archbishop of Lahore, Lawrence Saldanha. There were armed guards at the entrance to the church plus nine plainclothes police placed in the congregation. (Father Frank Brennan, UCA News)
Pakistanis do not know whom to trust at this time.
Christians, who are less than 2 percent of the population, have cause to be on edge, for their fears are compounded by ongoing discrimination and a blasphemy law which has had catastrophic consequences.
With coups and increasing Muslim fundamentalism, Pakistan has strayed long past the declaration of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, its founding father. Jinnah proclaimed in 1947: “You may belong to any religion or caste or creed — that has nothing to do with the business of the state.”
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A question of whom to trust (UCA News)
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