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Pakistan Sympathizes With Christians After Attacks
LAHORE,
Pakistan, FEB. 27, 2006 (Zenit.org).-
A Catholic representative of Pakistan praised the country's prime minister for
meeting with the ecclesial hierarchy in an act of solidarity after a series of
violent attacks against Christians.
After a meeting between Christian leaders and government officials, Archbishop
Lawrence Saldanha of Lahore commended Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz for publicly
condemning aggressors terrorizing Christians.
The archbishop stressed their loyalty of Catholics to the country, their
contribution to society and their opposition to the newspaper cartoons of
Mohammed.
At the meeting, held last week at his home in Islamabad, the prime minister
called for meetings between Church leaders and local and central government
aimed at pre-empting the outbreak of anti-Christian violence.
"Never before has the government acted in such a swift and decisive way,"
Archbishop Saldanha told Aid to the Church in Need. "There is real hope now that
we can deal with the pressures we are facing."
The archbishop explained that a sign of the government's intent was Aziz's
willingness to press ahead with the meeting immediately after the Feb. 19
attacks in which two schools and two churches were burned in Sukkur.