Pakistan, Boom in Vocations in the Land of Martyrs

Famiglia Christiana (via Google translate) ^

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The situation of the Catholic minority, today. Two months before the Easter massacre went in the Punjab, Lahore. The faith professed in tears by the survivors. The expert analysis. And, surprise, seminars full of young people

They call it "city of gardens". But today the more than eleven hundred public gardens scattered throughout the territory of Lahore, capital of Punjab Pakistan, remain sadly deserts. Two months after the suicide attack of 27 March in the park Gulshan-e-Iqbal - remembered as "the Easter attack "- fear and caution are still palpable. Terrorism has struck at the heart of the metropolis of over 11 million inhabitants, turning off the light-heartedness with which young people, children and old people populated the green areas, especially on weekends.

The new, sudden security alarm recorded in six schools in the city in recent days has been given the memory of what the Pakistani edition of Newsweek called it "a death unthinkable": the victims of the massacre are being, today, 81 mostly children and teenagers. The list continues to be updated, recording the death of others seriously injured. "We are in the test, but the heart is full of hope," he told Famiglia Cristiana the bishop of Lahore, Bishop Sebastian Shaw, who continues to regularly visit the injured in hospital. "We have under the eyes moving examples of true faith and Gospel witness. Mothers who lost their children. Children who have witnessed the death of brothers and sisters. Even in difficult times, the faithful have never ceased to trust in Christ. And this gives hope to all, too", he notes. "As the Church in Pakistan we do not want to live with a mentalità- ghetto but refer the Gospel image to be salt, light and leaven in our country," he explains.

In the attack in Lahore.....

[SunkenCiv]

When they say Boom, they ain't kiddin' around.