Source: Worthy News, March 13, 2016<\/p>\n
Pakistanis fleeing their country\u2019s notorious blasphemy laws have been heading to Thailand for sanctuary.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd for more than a decade, our parish has helped these refugees,\u201d said Rev. Domenico Rodighiero, the pastor of St. Michael\u2019s Catholic Church in Saphanmai, Bangkok. The refugees are mostly Protestants and Catholics, but there are also many Ahmadi Muslims fleeing from persecution in Pakistan.<\/p>\n
According to Asia News, most refugees from Pakistan flee first to Thailand, hoping to later resettle in other Southeast Asian countries. But this can prove to be problematic since Thailand does not recognize that refugees have rights.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Thai Church is generous and helps refugees find work,\u201d said Rodighiero. \u201cSometimes we help them go home, or in special situations, like when they get sick. But it is not easy because there are so many and the needs are huge. The Church here is small and does not have a lot of resources. It is struggling to deal with such a big emergency.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00bb Read full story<\/a> and see also Thailand\u2019s Asylum Crackdown<\/a>, a 23-minute video by a BBC undercover reporter. Use the password \u201cPakistan.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Worthy News, March 13, 2016 Pakistanis fleeing their country\u2019s notorious blasphemy laws have been heading to Thailand for sanctuary. \u201cAnd for more than a decade, our parish has helped these refugees,\u201d said Rev. Domenico Rodighiero, the pastor of St. Michael\u2019s Catholic Church in Saphanmai, Bangkok. The refugees are mostly Protestants and Catholics, but there … Continue reading THAILAND: Church Helps Pakistani Refugees<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-6306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6306","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=6306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6307,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6306\/revisions\/6307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}