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| Anglican leader says Pakistan's minorities should have equal rights | |
| 2014-05-29 | |
[DAWN] The Archbishop of Canterbury on Wednesday called for Pakistain to safeguard the rights of its religious minorities and afford them equal treatment under the law.
"Christians, historically, have given tremendous services to this country and I hope they can be given the scale of freedom and equal rights under the law," he told AFP. He added his message to the people and government of this country was to respect and safeguard the rights of all minorities. Talking to media, he said he met many Mohammedan religious leaders and government fumitories including Punjab governor Muhammad Sarwar. "Everybody is concerned about the private use of blasphemy laws, which is a sensitive matter in Pakistain," he said. "However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... they don't suggest a way forward and mechanism how to stop it." Most of Pakistain's Christians are poor and working in menial jobs. They have suffered attacks and riots in recent years, most notoriously last September when a double suicide kaboom at a church in the northwestern city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. killed 82 people. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 This concerns me, as apparently cynicism is a strong risk factor for Alzheimer's. Jeez, I am cooked. |
| Posted by: Squinty 2014-05-29 23:19 |
| #7 Okay, I agree that this Archbishop of Canterbury is a vast improvement over that Rowen guy, who was really keen on preemptively surrendering to whoever would take the keys to the building. And the new guy is speaking truth to power, with real consequences for his people, if not for him. But Barbara summed up my feeling about the entire thing, I'm afraid. This concerns me, as apparently cynicism is a strong risk factor for Alzheimers. Dear warthogswife, a number of Episcopalian churches have submitted themselves to the much more conservative African bishoprics. So you aren't alone. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-05-29 22:15 |
| #6 "The Archbishop of Canterbury on Wednesday called for Pakistain to safeguard the rights of its religious minorities and afford them equal treatment under the law." HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Good one, Arch! Oh, wait - you were serious? GFL on that one. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2014-05-29 19:42 |
| #5 I have been raised in the Episcopalian faith which is pretty darn close to Anglican and it always amazes me how far left these two denomination's outspoken leaders seem to be and and how "right" I am anyway. |
| Posted by: warthogswife 2014-05-29 15:55 |
| #4 . Treat other as you want to be treated. 2. Do unto others as you want to be treated. 3. If you massacre others, expect to be massacred. In short , you stink at equal rights Everything for you, nothing for others. And ha's why you never get equality, you never give it to others. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2014-05-29 15:45 |
| #3 This Archbishops is a major improvement on Rowen Williams who was Archbishop for 10 years until the last day of 2012. Williams was dogged in his pursuit of ways to excuse islamic terror and oppression, creative in finding ways to ignore it when it couldn't be excused and stubborn in defending both his excusemaking and his ignorance. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2014-05-29 13:20 |
| #2 The Archbishop of Canterbury Connected or not, they make great chocolates. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-05-29 12:34 |
| #1 Nobody expects Anglican ministers to be connected either to God or to reality I've know quite a few that were grounded in both. They chose not to involve themselves in the preenings and rantings of the upper Church hierarchy. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2014-05-29 11:53 |