{"id":3990,"date":"2013-10-16T23:48:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T05:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=3990"},"modified":"2013-10-16T23:48:36","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T05:48:36","slug":"pakistan-human-chain-formed-to-protect-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=3990","title":{"rendered":"PAKISTAN: Human Chain Formed to Protect Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: The Christian Post<\/a>, October 8, 2013<\/p>\n

Between 200-300 Pakistani Muslims and Christians united and gathered to make a human chain around a church in Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city on Sunday [October 6].<\/p>\n

Just two weeks after a church bombing killed more than 100 people in Peshawar, the human chain, organized by the citizen group “Pakistan for All,” is part of the movement’s goal to raise awareness about minority rights and concerns.<\/p>\n

“Well the terrorists showed us what they do on Sundays. Here we are showing them what we do on Sundays. We unite,” Pakistan for All organizer Mohammad Jibran Nasir told The Express Tribune<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mufti Mohammed Farooq opened the event by reading several passages from the Quran that called for tolerance of other beliefs, while Father Nasir Gulfam, who had just preached the church’s Sunday service, stood by his side before they took hold of each other’s hands, modeling their message.<\/p>\n

\u00bb Read full story.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00bb Readers might be interested in another story from The Christian Post, this one from the U.S.: Muslim-Born Man Testifies, ‘I’ve Never Seen This Type of Love Before’ After Church Unites to Save His Local Business<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The Christian Post, October 8, 2013 Between 200-300 Pakistani Muslims and Christians united and gathered to make a human chain around a church in Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city on Sunday [October 6]. Just two weeks after a church bombing killed more than 100 people in Peshawar, the human chain, organized by the citizen … Continue reading PAKISTAN: Human Chain Formed to Protect Church<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3991,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions\/3991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}