Pakistan

203 / October / November / December 2017 | 40 Years of Spiritan Presence in Asia: Pakistan / Philippines / Taiwan / Vietnam / India | Rome : Meeting of…

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At a meeting at Bahawalpur, a decision is taken to establish a third community at Sadiqabad, within the boundaries of one of the existing parishes. Work with the Marwaris will…

Arrival of David Donellan, who studies Urdu before joining the community at Sukkur.

Opening of new Marwari villages schools at Mogi and Darobagwar (Rahim Yar Khan).

Marwari village schools are opened. Many villages are visited with the FMM sisters for health education programmes and the distribution of medicine for common ailments. Cooperative programmes are also started.

Attack of RYK church and parish house by a mob of students in "retaliation" for incidents involving Israelis in the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Demonstrations of Christians throughout the…

Tensions between Punjabi Christians and Marwari come to a head in Bheel Nagar (a suburb of Rahim Yar Kan) over a plot of land owned by a Marwari and taken…