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Article: Suicide forces us to face Islamic blasphemy laws.(Bishop John Joseph of Pakistan)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- May 22, 1998
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Bishop John Joseph of Faisalabad, Pakistan, cried out to the world for justice (NCR, May 15). His cry will reverberate until the world risks looking at the Islamic repression he died protesting.
For anyone as self-reflective as the bishop showed himself to be, turning a gun on oneself is an awful prospect: not a wild gesture of the moment but the ultimate sacrifice approached calmly and in full awareness of the consequences -- a daunting act of conscience.
Before leaving home to travel the 100 kilometers to Sahiwal, he attended a prayer meeting for victims of the laws under which Ayub Masih and three other Christians have been condemned to death for ...