Roman Catholicism in Pakistan

The Roman Catholic Church in Pakistan is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome.

Overview

The Roman Catholic Church in Pakistan was established in the 16th century.

State religion in Pakistan is Islam. In Pakistan, about 1,000,000 Catholics.

Joseph Cordeiro, Archbishop of Karachi, 1973 by Pope Paul VI. appointed the first Cardinal of Pakistan. Pope John Paul II visited Pakistan on 16 February, 1981; In 2004, he received President Pervez Musharraf in a private audience.

In Yuhannabad, a district of Lahore, the St. Francis Xavier seminary Institute for Philosophical Studies was established. It is affiliated to the Pontifical Urban University in Rome. 1990 was founded the seminary in Punjab by the Bishops' Conference of Pakistan ( Catholic Bishop's Conference of Pakistan, PCBC ). The Catholic Church maintains the St Patrick's High School in Karachi.

Apostolic Nuncio to Pakistan since 2011 Edgar Peña Parra.

Tracking

Christianity in Pakistan is increasingly suppressed after the death of Benazir Bhutto; it done again and again massacre of the Christian population. Reason for the attacks by Islamists is the existing blasphemy law and the hudud ordinances ( hadd punishment ). About 70 houses and two Catholic churches were destroyed.

Bishop Andrew Francis of Multan in Punjab said about Pakistan: "The people here treat each other like beasts. You do not even stand at the beginning of a civilization. "

Shahbaz Bhatti, Minister for Minorities from 2008 until his Attentatstod on 2 March 2011, was the first Catholic who held the post of Minister for Minorities in Pakistan, and the only Christian in the Cabinet Asif Ali Zardari. Bhatti voted for a reform of the existing blasphemy law since 1986. He was committed to the Asia Bibi, sentenced to death and therefore of a Taliban group called " Tehrik Taliban Punjab Fidayan Mohammad " ( Tehrik -i - Taliban Pakistan) was assassinated.

Dioceses

  • Diocese of Faisalabad
  • Diocese of Hyderabad in Pakistan
  • Diocese of Islamabad - Rawalpindi
  • Archdiocese of Karachi
  • Archdiocese of Lahore
  • Diocese of Multan
  • Apostolic Vicariate of Quetta
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