Christians brace for more hits
ISLAMABAD: One year after a suicide bomber killed four worshippers in a Christian church in Islamabad, church leaders warned on Monday that a war on Iraq could trigger more deadly attacks against the Christian minority.
“It is a very dangerous time. If the war in Iraq starts, there might be terrorist attacks,” Father John Nevin of Islamabad’s only Catholic Church, Our Lady of Fatima, told reporters.
“The fear is there,” said the Bishop of Karachi, Right Reverend Sadiq Daniel.
“As Christians we face the problem that terrorists think that since the US is Christian, they target us too.”
On March 17 last year a militant with explosives strapped to his stomach burst into the Protestant International Church in Islamabad’s quiet diplomatic enclave and hurled up to nine grenades into the congregation.
Some 70 worshippers, mainly diplomats and their families, were in the midst of a Sunday prayer service. As well as killing four people and him, the bomber also injured 46 people of nine nationalities including Pakistanis. —AFP
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