from Pakistan

I spent 10 full days in Pakistan , in the outskirts of Lahore city, and the outskirts of Shekupura with some of the poorest Christians in the world. You must have heard of child labor and slavery in our modern age, you can see this scary way of life with your own eyes here. The saddest fact is that many that are exploited are our brothers and sisters in Christ. Children from Christian families go to the factory early morning, or to the brick making farm, they go and parents do not see them for a week, or many never return or return without pay, injured, crippled. Many Christian wives work as domestic servants in Muslim homes, where they are often raped, accused of stealing, beaten, abused to degrees I will not dare telling. Also, there are now few cases where Christian families are indebted to Muslim rich people and these Muslims press on the families till they change their religion to Islam. Near Shekupura there is a case of 300 families that had to change religion because of being in debt to their masters causing a humanitarian concern. The shocking part is the amounts of money they are in debt with, that are from 100-400$ per family, and this debt is a generated one over many years of their masters (just like the Egyptians did with the sons of Israel) working them and sucking out of them every life they got. Sad situation, but I wanted to start my letter with these facts so you would understand my testimony that follows latter.

P.Joseph Marian


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