Friday, December 02, 2005
ISLAMIC CHARITY
Hundreds of Christian families in Pakistan are being kicked out of their homes to make way for Muslims left destitute by the Kashmir earthquake, a Catholic bishop has said. Bishop Anthony Lobo of Islamabad-Rawalpindi, Pakistan, said the Pakistani government has evicted Christians to solve the problem of how to house some 3 million people left homeless by the disaster. The Oct. 8 earthquake killed more than 73,000 people, but those left homeless continue to be threatened with death from exposure to single-digit winter temperatures. Bishop Lobo told the British branch of Aid to the Church in Need, a Catholic charity, Nov. 29 that Christians in the neighboring Sind province, which was unaffected by the earthquake, might now also perish because they were being turned onto the streets without alternative accommodation provided for them. He said that he knew of at least 40 families, or about 200 people, who had been evicted around Joharabad, near Karachi.
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The article goes on to recount the contributions for disaster relief that have been made by the Catholics and about the Christian churches that have been destroyed. I guess this is the way the Muslims express their gratitude.
