{"id":4962,"date":"2006-10-27T09:02:47","date_gmt":"2006-10-27T09:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/10\/pakistani-christians-under-pressure.html"},"modified":"2006-10-27T09:02:47","modified_gmt":"2006-10-27T09:02:47","slug":"pakistani-christians-under-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/10\/pakistani-christians-under-pressure.html","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani Christians under pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetablet.co.uk\/articles\/8840\/\">From the Tablet:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Fr Robert McCulloch, 60, an Australian Columban missionary in Hyderabad, told <em>The Tablet<\/em> that laws had created a culture of intimidation. &quot; There&#8217;s a policy of religious domination. A group of [Muslim] fundamentalists came to the door of a missionary nun, trying to put a copy of the Qur&#8217;an into her hands and cause it to fall to the ground. [If they had succeeded] it would have been taken as an insult to the Qur&#8217;an. Fundamentalists have their witnesses gathered, then demonstrations [calling for her arrest] would begin. Legal justice is one thing; mob justice is another. It all adds to the enormous insecurity Christians have to live with.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Tablet: Fr Robert McCulloch, 60, an Australian Columban missionary in Hyderabad, told The Tablet that laws had created a culture of intimidation. &quot; There&#8217;s a policy of religious domination. 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