Pakistan: Islamic mob assaults Christians

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Lahore, Nov. 14 (AsiaNews) - Three churches, a convent, two Catholic schools, the houses of a Protestant pastor and a parish priest, a girls’ hostel, and some Christian homes, were first vandalized and then set on fire by an angry crowd of around 2,000 people in the village of Sangla Hill, in the Nankana district of Pakistan, this weekend, the AsiaNews service reports. At least 450 Christian families fled from the village and they have not yet returned for fear of further violence.

Archbishop Lawrence John Saldanha of Lahore Archdiocese told AsiaNews that “the attack seems to have been planned and organized, as the attackers were brought to the site in buses and instigated to commit violence and arson." The Lahore archdiocese deplored the failure of police to stop the violence.

The attacks were apparently motivated by a new case in which a Christian youth was arrested and charged with violating the country’s blasphemy law. Christians say the charges are false, and the young man was accused by neighbors who were angry with him because of a business dispute. Nevertheless, local Islamic preachers preached fiery sermons, inciting large crowds to attack Christian institutions.
 
The religion of peace just keeps on giving the opposite, eh?
 
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thestickman:
The religion of peace just keeps on giving the opposite, eh?
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More like the adherents than the religion. Look at the outrages that “Christians” have done in centuries past, supposedly in the name of their “religion of peace.”

If the Devil can twist Scripture to his own purposes, surely men can do the same - regardless of the scripture, regardless of the religion.
 
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Lahore, Nov. 14 (AsiaNews) - Three churches, a convent, two Catholic schools, the houses of a Protestant pastor and a parish priest, a girls’ hostel, and some Christian homes, were first vandalized and then set on fire by an angry crowd of around 2,000 people in the village of Sangla Hill, in the Nankana district of Pakistan, this weekend, the AsiaNews service reports. At least 450 Christian families fled from the village and they have not yet returned for fear of further violence.
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That’s OK it will not be news here in America because Christians are suffering. And, it will probably be overlooked by most diocesan newspapers too. Heck, they’ve all but ignored Darfur in Sudan and what is going on in Indonesia. Yet, if one remembers back to Bosnia we were remined daily how awful the Orthodox Serbs and some of the Catholic Croats treated their Muslim neighbors. Not to mention the one sided reporting on Kosovo.

Though in my diocese the death penalty is prayed about at every Sunday Mass when was the last time any Bishop or Priest asked us to pray about suffering Chrisitans anywhere?

AJC
 
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AJC:
Though in my diocese the death penalty is prayed about at every Sunday Mass when was the last time any Bishop or Priest asked us to pray about suffering Chrisitans anywhere?
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We had quite a lot of prayers last week for the suffering Palestinian Catholics, when the brave priest from our twin parish in Birzeit was visiting.

Was that the kind of thing you meant?

Mike
 
Maybe we should advertise the fact that its CHRISTIAN NATIONS ! That are donating the most to Pakistanie relief.It isnt their Muslim brothers,its CHRISTIANSn ! It was the same with the Tsunami .Saudi Arabia was one of the cheapest countries, when it came to helping.
 
I am very angered, I can´t express nothing. I am tired of these things.
 
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We had quite a lot of prayers last week for the suffering Palestinian Catholics, when the brave priest from our twin parish in Birzeit was visiting.

Was that the kind of thing you meant?

Mike
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Yes, we should pray for Christians, as their number deminish, in the Holy Land. But, that is not what I meant. I meant the Peoples Republic of China, Pakistan, Sudan, I could go on. I hate to be so cynical, but I am not surprised that your priest would pray for Palestinian Christians. Being in Israel and Palestine they would pass the political correctness test.

AJC
 
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Yes, we should pray for Christians, as their number deminish, in the Holy Land. But, that is not what I meant. I meant the Peoples Republic of China, Pakistan, Sudan, I could go on. I hate to be so cynical, but I am not surprised that your priest would pray for Palestinian Christians. Being in Israel and Palestine they would pass the political correctness test.
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The priest from a parish in Palestine was visiting our parish. That was probably more of a consideration when writing the prayers than political correctness 🙂

Mike
 
Arba Sicula:
More like the adherents than the religion. Look at the outrages that “Christians” have done in centuries past, supposedly in the name of their “religion of peace.”
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I’m looking at today. What are the Christians doing that comes even close to what Muslims are doing all over the globe to persecute Christians?
 
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I’m looking at today. What are the Christians doing that comes even close to what Muslims are doing all over the globe to persecute Christians?
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Persecution doesn’t have to be ongoing and current to rate as an outrage. There are those who are still outraged by the Turkish persecution of the Armenians and that was 100 years ago.

Saying, “Well, we don’t do that lately” doesn’t diminish a past enormity.
 
Arba Sicula:
Persecution doesn’t have to be ongoing and current to rate as an outrage. There are those who are still outraged by the Turkish persecution of the Armenians and that was 100 years ago.

Saying, “Well, we don’t do that lately” doesn’t diminish a past enormity.
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Historical arguments about past conflicts doesn’t usually lead to peace. I would say the weight of the evidence is that Islam has generally lived and died by the sword and Christiainity has lived and died by martyrdom. You would probably disagree and then we would be back where we started.

If we want peace now and it is Muslim extremists preventing that peace, then we must address Muslim extremists, especially in regards to how they are being educated. One way to do that is to look as to how peaceful people are being educated. We can see these examples in Christians today, so why not use these examples to help rather than saying that we cannot use today’s Christians because Joe the Christian that lived 200 years ago was a mean dude?
 
Perhaps they are upset at the actions of “Christian” nations like the US and UK. If all I knew about the US was what’s going on in the Middle East it would never occur to me that the folks in charge condiered themselves Christians. Large amounts of civilian deaths, torture, homes and towns destroyed, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Maybe we need to think about why they hate us so much and then address those issues. Maybe we need to start acting like we give a ?@# about all humanity, you know, the stuff Christ told us to do. Our actions do not match our words - we need to walk the walk.
 
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koda:
Perhaps they are upset at the actions of “Christian” nations like the US and UK. If all I knew about the US was what’s going on in the Middle East it would never occur to me that the folks in charge condiered themselves Christians. Large amounts of civilian deaths, torture, homes and towns destroyed, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Maybe we need to think about why they hate us so much and then address those issues. Maybe we need to start acting like we give a ?@# about all humanity, you know, the stuff Christ told us to do. Our actions do not match our words - we need to walk the walk.
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I find this post very offensive. People can distort, exaggerate and twist things to make every evil in the world appear to be the fault of the USA. If I remember correctly, this whole ugly mess started over somebody losing some money gambling and had about as much to do with US foreign policy or religion as the years of strife in Northern Ireland did. I would like to see some major changes in our foreign policy, but to say it has caused internal problems of this nature in another country is just beyond my ability to comprehend.
 
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geezerbob:
I find this post very offensive. People can distort, exaggerate and twist things to make every evil in the world appear to be the fault of the USA. If I remember correctly, this whole ugly mess started over somebody losing some money gambling and had about as much to do with US foreign policy or religion as the years of strife in Northern Ireland did. I would like to see some major changes in our foreign policy, but to say it has caused internal problems of this nature in another country is just beyond my ability to comprehend.
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Bob, I am not saying it is all our fault - but they are blaming us and we never address it which I think contributes to this kind of violence in which you correctly state that we have nothing to do with the event that sparks it but, until we address the legitimate concerns on the non-violent Muslim world, they will always be pointing a finger at us. We need to talk with the non-violent factions and work with them to stop this nonsensical killing which does nothing to improve the perceived reputation of either side.
 
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koda:
Perhaps they are upset at the actions of “Christian” nations like the US and UK. If all I knew about the US was what’s going on in the Middle East it would never occur to me that the folks in charge condiered themselves Christians. Large amounts of civilian deaths, torture, homes and towns destroyed, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Maybe we need to think about why they hate us so much and then address those issues. Maybe we need to start acting like we give a ?@# about all humanity, you know, the stuff Christ told us to do. Our actions do not match our words - we need to walk the walk.
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Koda, please you are mistaken, what is my the deepest concern about US, being too much friendly with islamists like happened in Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and the communists killed by muslims etc.
They had to defend more times to christianism, and too much times, US defended islam. And this is sad.
 
No one has given more in aid, food, medicine to Muslims that the US. No one else even comes close.
 
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No one has given more in aid, food, medicine to Muslims that the US. No one else even comes close.
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That may be true but what about, for example, our friendship with the Saudi government which is very corrupt. Not to mention the 9/11 hijackers came from there and that we found evidence that some members of the Saudi family funded Al Qaeda - yet we remain on friendly terms.
 
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koda:
That may be true but what about, for example, our friendship with the Saudi government which is very corrupt. Not to mention the 9/11 hijackers came from there and that we found evidence that some members of the Saudi family funded Al Qaeda - yet we remain on friendly terms.
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Which has zip to do with anything. Only the misinformed try to explain the behavior of these terrorists by making these statements.

They people commit these acts of evil because they are evil people. Period!
 
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