Roman Catholic Church in Pakistan

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The Roman Catholic Church in Pakistan is part of the Roman Catholic Church worldwide .

overview

The Roman Catholic Church in Pakistan was founded in the 16th century.

The state religion in Pakistan is Islam . Approximately 1,000,000 Catholics live in Pakistan.

Joseph Cordeiro , Archbishop of Karachi, was appointed by Pope Paul VI in 1973 . appointed first cardinal of Pakistan. Pope John Paul II visited Pakistan on February 16, 1981; In 2004 he received President Pervez Musharraf in a private audience.

The St. Francis Xavier Seminary, an institute for philosophical studies, was established in Yuhannabad, a district of Lahore. It is affiliated with the Pontifical Urban University in Rome. In 1990 the Catholic Bishop's Conference of Pakistan (PCBC) established the seminary in Punjab. The Catholic Church maintains St Patrick's High School in Karachi.

Apostolic nuncio in Pakistan has been Archbishop Christophe Zakhia El-Kassis since 2018 .

persecution

The Christianity in Pakistan after the death of Benazir Bhutto increasingly suppressed; there are repeated massacres of the Christian population. The reason for the attacks by Islamists is the current blasphemy law and the hudud ordinances ( hadd punishment ). Over 70 houses and two Catholic churches were destroyed.

Bishop Andrew Francis of Multan in Panjab said of Pakistan: “The people here treat one another like beasts. You are not even at the beginning of a civilization. "

Shahbaz Bhatti , Minister for Minorities from 2008 until his assassination attempt on March 2, 2011, was the first Catholic to hold the post of Minister for Minorities in Pakistan and the only Christian in Asif Ali Zardari's cabinet. Bhatti voted for a reform of the blasphemy law, which has existed since 1986. He campaigned for the condemned Asia Bibi and was therefore murdered by a Taliban group called "Tehrik Taliban Fidayan Mohammad Punjab" ( Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Catholic Church in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (Source: The Catholic Church in Pakistan. Directory 2002) ( Memento of May 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Pontificia Università Urbaniana, accessed on August 4, 2009
  2. ^ "The fact that President Musharraf will meet the Holy Father will boost Muslim Christian relations and help the battle to stop terrorism, chairman of the Catholic Bishops told Fides" ( Memento June 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Fides, September 28 2004
  3. ↑ “Being a Christian in Pakistan” ( memento from July 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), dr / kna, August 4, 2009
  4. ^ Church in Need: Country Report Pakistan , Church in Need, viewed August 4, 2009
  5. ↑ "Islamists burned Christians alive in Punjab" , kathpress, August 3, 2009
  6. ↑ Betsy Udink : Allah & Eva: Der Islam und die Frauen , Beck Munich 2007, ISBN 3-406-56322-8 , page 121
  7. ^ Vatican condemns attack on Christian minister. Archived from the original on March 5, 2011 ; Retrieved March 2, 2011 .
  8. ↑ Shahbaz Bhatti murdered for defending Asia Bibi. Retrieved March 2, 2011 .

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