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Pakistan
Spiritan News 203
203 / October / November / December 2017 | 40 Years of Spiritan Presence in Asia: Pakistan / Philippines / Taiwan / Vietnam / India | Rome : Meeting of…
December 1, 2017
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Spiritan Life 14 - Spiritans and Islam
Editorial: Spiritans and Islam - Robert Ellison Pakistan: Our presence to the world of Islam - The Spiritan Croup Algeria: Getting to know Islam - René You Zanzibar: A pastoral…
December 1, 2002
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Pakistan
Pakistan October, 1996: Work begins on the new house at Sadiqabad.
October 9, 1996
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Pakistan
Visitation by Fr. Bernard Kelly, first Assistant. The following year, in 1995, Jim O'Connell is elected Group Leader, after Frank Naughton (86-92) and Eamon McCann. It is decided to return…
November 8, 1994
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Pakistan
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…
May 13, 1992
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Pakistan
Arrival of David Donellan, who studies Urdu before joining the community at Sukkur.
September 27, 1990
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Pakistan
Opening of new Marwari villages schools at Mogi and Darobagwar (Rahim Yar Khan).
November 30, 1988
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Pakistan
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.
November 17, 1986
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Pakistan
Attack on the church and the Spiritan house in Rahimyar Khan, Pakistan.
February 3, 1986
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Pakistan
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…
February 1, 1986
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Pakistan
Edward Flynn and John Jackson move to Sukkur to take over the parish from the Franciscans. The following year a religious convention ("maila") is organised at Sukkur in honour of…
October 8, 1983
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Pakistan
Visit of Joseph Gross, first General Assistant. Spiritans will take on Sukkur parish (Sindh, Hyderabad diocese) in 1983 and a third team will be prepared for another mission. Half the…
November 8, 1981
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Pakistan
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…
November 6, 1978
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Pakistan
Arrival of the first 3 Spiritans in Rahim Yar Khan (RYK), a parish created in 1958.
December 25, 1977
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Pakistan
Arrival of the first Spiritans in Pakistan: John Kitchen, John O'Brien and Eddie Flynn.
December 20, 1977
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Pakistan
Pentecost: Decision of the General council to open a mission in Pakistan for tribal ministry with an international team involving the Irish, English and French provinces, based on a request…
July 21, 1976
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