{"id":74,"date":"2011-01-13T14:18:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T14:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/activistfaith\/2011\/01\/praying-for-change-in-pakistan.html"},"modified":"2011-01-13T14:18:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T14:18:08","slug":"praying-for-change-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/activistfaith\/2011\/01\/praying-for-change-in-pakistan.html","title":{"rendered":"Praying for Change in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>I want to share an interesting story from Open Doors today about the ongoing situation in Pakistan regarding religious persecution. I don&#8217;t know all of the details, but would encourage readers to pray regarding this situation. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Dillon<\/i><\/p>\n<p>+++<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/members.opendoorsusa.org\/images\/content\/pagebuilder\/WWL_2011\/images\/pakistani-man.png\" height=\"152\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"> <strong>Islamic extremists<\/strong> killed a <strong>Christian lawyer<\/strong>,<br \/>\nhis wife and their five children in northwestern Pakistan for mounting a<br \/>\nlegal challenge against a Muslim who was charging a Christian<br \/>\nexorbitant interest. <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\nPolice found the bodies of attorney and evangelist Edwin Paul and his<br \/>\nfamily at their home in Haripur, a small town near Abbotabad in Khyber<br \/>\nPakhtunkhwa Province (previously known as the North-West Frontier<br \/>\nProvince).\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">  The victim and his wife Ruby Paul, along with their five children ages 6 to 17, had been shot to death.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\nA group of armed men stopped Paul and took him by the collar and said,<br \/>\n&#8220;Leave the town in 24 hours  we know how to throw out Christians, we<br \/>\nwill not allow even a single Christian to live here. We will hang them<br \/>\nall in the streets, so that no Christian would ever dare to enter the<br \/>\nHazara land.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\nA group of armed men stopped Paul and took him by the collar and said,<br \/>\n&#8220;Leave the town in 24 hours  we know how to throw out Christians, we<br \/>\nwill not allow even a single Christian to live here. We will hang them<br \/>\nall in the streets, so that <strong>no Christian would ever dare to enter the Hazara land.&#8221; <br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">-from Open Doors <a href=\"http:\/\/members.opendoorsusa.org\/site\/TellAFriend?msgId=49641.0&amp;devId=67521\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>+++<\/p>\n<p>DILLON<br \/>\nBURROUGHS is an author, activist, and co-founder of Activist Faith.<br \/>\nDillon served in Haiti following the epic 2010 earthquake and has<br \/>\ninvestigated modern slavery in the US and internationally. His books<br \/>\ninclude Undefending Christianity, Not in My Town (with Charles J.<br \/>\nPowell), and Thirst No More (October). Discover more at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/dillonburroughs.org\/\">DillonBurroughs.org<\/a>. <i><br \/><\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to share an interesting story from Open Doors today about the ongoing situation in Pakistan regarding religious persecution. I don&#8217;t know all of the details, but would encourage readers to pray regarding this situation. Thanks, Dillon +++ Islamic extremists killed a Christian lawyer, his wife and their five children in northwestern Pakistan for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-worldview"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Praying for Change in Pakistan - Activist Faith<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/activistfaith\/2011\/01\/praying-for-change-in-pakistan.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Praying for Change in Pakistan - Activist Faith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I want to share an interesting story from Open Doors today about the ongoing situation in Pakistan regarding religious persecution. 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