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Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Why minority sweeper for job?
Punjab Institute of Cardiology Lahore, capital of Punjab province September 16, the newspaper published an advertisement for the job of security guard etc are pointing to seek a candidate.
Man and woman in the advertisement for the job of janitor had explained that "the non-Muslim minorities is concerned, the same can apply to.
The idea that the federal and provincial level for persons belonging to minority quota was five percent and it currently minority quota Minister Shahbaz Bhatti killed in the 2010 law.
The ad also stated that fifteen percent quota for women, minorities and persons with disabilities for a five per cent quota of three percent.
Punjab Institute of Cardiology, Medical Superintendent Dr. Sohail Abbas on the issue hesitatingly to the BBC Urdu speaking 'see it from government jobs are being advertised. Secretary Health Punjab Why do not you speak? '
Sykyy once tried to contact the Secretary of Health, but he did not respond.
It appears that only a small jobs and for non-Muslims in the eyes of society has been limited to certain types of work. Second, you're discrimination against Muslims, they can not apply for this job.
Shane Cecil Chaudhry
Minority rights organization, the National Commission for Justice and Peace IV Shane Cecil Chaudhry, a senior official said the ad appeared in two lines.
"It appears that there is little jobs to non-Muslims in the eyes of society has been limited to certain types of work. Second, you're discrimination against Muslims, they can not apply for this job. "
He said his organization is considering taking legal action against the ad.
The journalist and human rights activist Asif Aqeel said that jobs ads that appear in most hospitals.
He said that in June this year before Lady Wellington Hospital and Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, which also had an advertisement for a job as a janitor in a non-Muslim or Christian, had been stamped.
"This ad has been under what law? No law says that a certain percentage of the employment of people belonging to a religion can be given? '
It is concerned not only with religion. Caste in India is very important, that certain things are to people belonging to certain species. Most Christians in Pakistan have already had the untouchables or lower caste.
Asif Aqeel
Asif Aqeel, adding that it reflected the thinking of society that individuals can make filthy and dirty work.
It is concerned not only with religion. Caste in India is very important, that certain things are to people belonging to certain species. Most Christians in Pakistan have already had the untouchables or lower caste. '
And wondering if the Christian community to pray for the other to take government jobs, they also face discrimination reads.
Five years ago, the fault Naeem Christ from the Department of Education in a public school and then applied for a job as deputy ambassador gave interviews. Naeem Christ are matriculate. However, the deputy ambassador did not get the job, for which he received a janitor's job application was not given. The Lahore High Court against the Department of Education is the case, but no decision had so many years later.
Journalist Asif Aqeel says such discrepancies to challenge the very difficult task for a poor man Makhlouf added that the need to change the thinking of the whole society, that is where Christian janitor's job to Mercy community. "
Pope: Freedom is one of America’s most precious possessions
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis quoted Martin Luther King on Wednesday during his speech at the Welcome Ceremony at The White House in Washington at the start of his six-day apostolic visit to the United States.
Noting that as the son of an immigrant family the Pope said he is happy to be a guest in a country built largely by immigrants, and that he looks forward to listening to and sharing the hopes and dreams of the American people.
Describing American Catholics and all other Americans of goodwill as people who are committed to building a society which is truly tolerant and inclusive, Pope Francis remarked on their concern that a “just and wisely ordered society respect” their right to religious liberty.
“Freedom – he said – remains one of America’s most precious possessions” and he called on all citizens to “preserve and defend that freedom from everything that would threaten or compromise it”.
Pope Francis also had warm words of appreciation for how President Obama is pushing to reduce air pollution.
“When it comes to the care of our “common home”, we are living at a critical moment of history” he said.
Pointing to the fact that environmental issues pertaining to “our common home” have globally been overlooked and that today they must be urgently tackled, he quoted Reverend Martin Luther King’s words: “we can say that we have defaulted on a promissory note and now is the time to honor”.
And reminding believers that “the Creator does not abandon us” Pope Francis said humanity still has the ability to work together in building our common home.
The Pope concluded his address calling on all American men and women of good will to “support the efforts of the international community to protect the vulnerable in our world and to stimulate integral and inclusive models of development, so that our brothers and sisters everywhere may know the blessings of peace and prosperity which God wills for all his children”.
Please find below the full text of Pope Francis’ speech:
Welcome Ceremony
The White House, Washington
Wednesday, 23 September 2015
The White House, Washington
Wednesday, 23 September 2015
Good morning!
Mr President,
I am deeply grateful for your welcome in the name of all Americans. As the son of an immigrant family, I am happy to be a guest in this country, which was largely built by such families. I look forward to these days of encounter and dialogue, in which I hope to listen to, and share, many of the hopes and dreams of the American people.
During my visit I will have the honor of addressing Congress, where I hope, as a brother of this country, to offer words of encouragement to those called to guide the nation’s political future in fidelity to its founding principles. I will also travel to Philadelphia for the Eighth World Meeting of Families, to celebrate and support the institutions of marriage and the family at this, a critical moment in the history of our civilization.
Mr. President, together with their fellow citizens, American Catholics are committed to building a society which is truly tolerant and inclusive, to safeguarding the rights of individuals and communities, and to rejecting every form of unjust discrimination. With countless other people of good will, they are likewise concerned that efforts to build a just and wisely ordered society respect their deepest concerns and their right to religious liberty. That freedom remains one of America’s most precious possessions. And, as my brothers, the United States Bishops, have reminded us, all are called to be vigilant, precisely as good citizens, to preserve and defend that freedom from everything that would threaten or compromise it.
Mr. President, I find it encouraging that you are proposing an initiative for reducing air pollution. Accepting the urgency, it seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to a future generation. When it comes to the care of our “common home”, we are living at a critical moment of history. We still have time to make the changes needed to bring about “a sustainable and integral development, for we know that things can change” (Laudato Si’, 13). Such change demands on our part a serious and responsible recognition not only of the kind of world we may be leaving to our children, but also to the millions of people living under a system which has overlooked them. Our common home has been part of this group of the excluded which cries out to heaven and which today powerfully strikes our homes, our cities and our societies. To use a telling phrase of the Reverend Martin Luther King, we can say that we have defaulted on a promissory note and now is the time to honor it.
We know by faith that “the Creator does not abandon us; he never forsakes his loving plan or repents of having created us. Humanity still has the ability to work together in building our common home” (Laudato Si’, 13). As Christians inspired by this certainty, we wish to commit ourselves to the conscious and responsible care of our common home.
The efforts which were recently made to mend broken relationships and to open new doors to cooperation within our human family represent positive steps along the path of reconciliation, justice and freedom. I would like all men and women of good will in this great nation to support the efforts of the international community to protect the vulnerable in our world and to stimulate integral and inclusive models of development, so that our brothers and sisters everywhere may know the blessings of peace and prosperity which God wills for all his children.
Mr President, once again I thank you for your welcome, and I look forward to these days in your country. God bless America!
Mr President, once again I thank you for your welcome, and I look forward to these days in your country. God bless America!
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Authorities issue warnings that Pakistan’s Christian community will be next target of ISIS -
Pakistani Christians might be next target of the ultra-extremist group ISIS.
According to a report by Gatestone Institute, Pakistan’s Christian community which is already facing persecution at various social levels might be next target of ISIS. The report claims that the Government of Pakistan and the military authorities have already signalled that the terror group might attack Pakistan’s churches, Christian schools, hospitals and other Missionary institutions.
Representative of some of the prominent military officials along with the Ministry of Interior have in fact issued warnings to the Christian clerics that the anticipated campaign against Christians will first be initiated in the country’s northwest region of Khyber Paktunkhwa. KPK is the most vulnerable area of Pakistan lying alongside the Pushtun-dominated Afghanistan and FATA which is hub of Pakistan’s Tehrik-e-Taliban.
Also read: Pakistan to decide soon about joining the U.S. led coalition against ISIS
While keeping in line with these itchy warnings, some disintegrated factions that were formerly under the banner of the Pakistani Taliban will be launching these predicted attacks against Christian communities in Pakistan. As it has been already known, that some of the factions of extremist groups in Pakistan had already pledged an alliance with the world’s most extremist terror group ISIS. What is more, Islamic State (ISIS) has already created inroads in Pakistan since on several occasions pamphlets and the terror group’s manifestoes were distributed in KPK including the provincial capitol Peshawar.
This looming anti-Christian campaign could be a pungent response to the efficacy
of the ongoing military offensive in North and South Waziristan, where hideouts of the jihadists are being targeted. A Pakistani Christian cleric (his name is withheld for security reasons) is of the same opinion. He says, “The anti-Christian strategy by Islamic terrorists might be a response to the effectiveness of the Pakistani Army’s ongoing offensive.”
of the ongoing military offensive in North and South Waziristan, where hideouts of the jihadists are being targeted. A Pakistani Christian cleric (his name is withheld for security reasons) is of the same opinion. He says, “The anti-Christian strategy by Islamic terrorists might be a response to the effectiveness of the Pakistani Army’s ongoing offensive.”
At the same time, after these warning were being whispered to the Pakistani Christian clerics, another Christian cleric remarked that Pakistan’s military leaders should be complimented greatly for execution and so far progress of the in progress campaign to restrain the Pakistani Taliban and several other minute jihadi outfits in North Waziristan.
Pakistani officials have warned Christian clerics not to move far from their churches. One Christian cleric was warned to avoid taking his morning or evening walks. Further more, Christian priests have been cautioned not to agree to hold prayer meetings outside their churches pr attend meetings organised by parties outside of their knowledge.
Saturday, September 19, 2015
Islamabad: A mob set the house of a Christian family on fire after locking them in
Islamabad: A mob set the house of a Christian family on fire after locking them in
An aggressive mob sets house of a Christian family on fire, with the intention of burning the family within the house as well.
According to reports, home of a Christian family was reduced to ashes when an aggressive mob set it ablaze on September 10, Thursday. The radicals tried to burn the Christian family inside the house alive purportedly. It has been claimed by the victims that the alleged perpetrators had the intentions of obtaining the property of the Christian family.
The victim 38-year-old, Christian Boota Masih who is residing in Islamabad accuses that the perpetrators are after his property the land and his house. Despite the fact that there are eye witnesses and proof against the alleged perpetrators local police is reluctant to register and FIR.
Also read: A Pakistani Christian woman seeking asylum in Thailand writes to Pope Francis
In keeping with Boota Masih, a mob including both men and women large group of men and two women arrived at his house and started banging on the door shouting yelling at him to come out of the house. He revealed that he was utterly surprised to see a mob gathered at his front doorstep. One of the perpetrators leading the mob threatened him to vacate the house immediately or else he would be facing dire consequences.
While the mob chanting slogans terming Boots a trespasser in his own home. He revealed he became terrified. “I was terror stricken, the mob was threatening to kill me and my family. They had weapons in their hands and started to brandish them before me. I thought they would kill all of us. I refused to leave my home – I had paid for it fairly and they had no right to ask me to leave.”
When Boota Masih remained adamant and refused to vacate the house, the mob began beating him violently with iron rods and wooden sticks. This was not all, some of the people from the mob locked the Christian family inside a room of their house and set it on fire.”I broke the door down using all my strength, desperate to live and to save my family. Soon other local Christians came to rescue us, they put out the flames and called the fire brigade”.
Few months ago, Boota Masih and his family including a wife and six children had moved to the house after he purchased the house from Ghulam Ali after paying 1 million rupees. Since the deal was oral and two witnesses were present when Boota Masih made the payment while written legal documentation was made. For this reason, the purchase became controversial.
It is speculated that wife of Ghulam Ali had incited the attack on the Christian family. On the other side, local Christians testify to the noble character of Boota saying that he has been living in this area for decades. All these years Boota has earned a good reputation in the eyes of the public. He makes both ends meet by selling fruit in a local market while his wife works in a school.
Police on the other hand, are reluctant to file and FIR saying that a complaint will not be registered until a thorough investigations will be made into the details provided by Boota Masih. This attack has left the family of Boota Masih terrified while local Christians are also fearful.
- See more at: http://www.christiansinpakistan.com/islamabad-a-mob-set-the-house-of-a-christian-family-on-fire-after-locking-them-in/#sthash.C7pigMiS.dpufWednesday, September 2, 2015
A week ago the Muslims in Wazirabad Punjab Pakistan once again willing to burnt christian boy alive. According to our facts Syed Zain Shah 25 years willing to forced to convert christian
The blasphemy laws.
Wazirabad Punjab :
A week ago the Muslims in Wazirabad Punjab Pakistan once again willing to burnt christian boy alive. According to our facts Syed Zain Shah 25 years willing to forced to convert christian in Railway colony Wazirabad.many times he threatening them, blocking there streets, and blocking their daily used drinking water from mosique. On Thursday 2/7/15
He started religious debate with young christian boy Aftab Akash and started derogatory remarks against Jesus Christ and holy bible and convinced him to become Muslim at the little shop of Shafaqat Hussain Shah whom intrupted to Syed Zain Shah about his negative thoughts against holy bible and Jesus Christ. Aftab Akash coded Hindu's spiritual god (Baba Guru NANAK) now when he listened and become angry until killing of Aftab his family and all christian house located in same.
Wazirabad Punjab :
A week ago the Muslims in Wazirabad Punjab Pakistan once again willing to burnt christian boy alive. According to our facts Syed Zain Shah 25 years willing to forced to convert christian in Railway colony Wazirabad.many times he threatening them, blocking there streets, and blocking their daily used drinking water from mosique. On Thursday 2/7/15
He started religious debate with young christian boy Aftab Akash and started derogatory remarks against Jesus Christ and holy bible and convinced him to become Muslim at the little shop of Shafaqat Hussain Shah whom intrupted to Syed Zain Shah about his negative thoughts against holy bible and Jesus Christ. Aftab Akash coded Hindu's spiritual god (Baba Guru NANAK) now when he listened and become angry until killing of Aftab his family and all christian house located in same.
A young Christian worker Pervaiz Masih has money dispute with Muslims in GOREY WALA VILLAGE IN KASUR CITY PAKISTAN under section blasphemy law. Please Prayer for them.
BREAKING NEWS"
A young Christian worker Pervaiz Masih has money dispute with Muslims in GOREY WALA VILLAGE IN KASUR CITY PAKISTAN. Application has been submitted in to Usman Mandi Police station against Pervez Masih under section blasphemy law.
Please Prayer for them.
A young Christian worker Pervaiz Masih has money dispute with Muslims in GOREY WALA VILLAGE IN KASUR CITY PAKISTAN. Application has been submitted in to Usman Mandi Police station against Pervez Masih under section blasphemy law.
Please Prayer for them.
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