June 2013 Council Agenda - International Pentecostal Holiness ...

• Scores of people have been killed in sporadic demonstrations that have rocked
Bangladesh since February. At least 37 died in early May as police tried to quash
protests in the capital, Dhaka, where 70,000 Islamist demonstrators took to the
streets, demanding sharia rule, virtual segregation of women, and the death sentence
for those who insult Islam or Muhammad. Rioters set fire to shops and vehicles, and
police used rubber bullets, stun grenades and batons to disperse the crowd. Christian
homes have been torched and churches threatened by Islamists who are
demanding that the country become an Islamic state.
PAKISTAN
• Back in March, several thousand Muslims attacked a Christian community in Lahore,
torching dozens of homes and shops. With assistance from People to People Ministries,
our churches in Pakistan visited the Christian families in Lahore whose homes
were burned to minister to them in the name of Christ. Leaders and members from our
churches in Karachi made two ministry trips to Joseph Colony in Lahore, and blessed
more than 150 families with food supplies, household items and special Easter
cake. As they struggle to rebuild their homes, the Christian families in Lahore were
blessed and encouraged to know they are not forgotten by their brothers and sisters
around the world.
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