Thursday, May 17, 2007

Michael's story

Michael John is a minority Christian parliamentarian in a Muslim country. He lives in Charsadda - a small town in north west Pakistan.

The town has recently been hit by violence - bombs have been planted and set off, one was as recent as last week. The Muslim militants apparently have been carrying these activities and others to curb "anti-Islamic" activities in the North West Frontier Province.

Not surprisingly, Christians - a tiny monority - have been targetted - for merely choosing to practise their faith.

Michael received a letter recently demanding that the Christians there convert to Islam or face the consequences.

Some families have left but the rest who haven't and/or can't are living in fear now and are pleading with the government to protect them.

Read the rest of the story here.

Source: BBC News Online

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