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Suicide attack on Pakistani church kills 75 people

TheWake UpCall 1 Church, Pakistan 6:01 AM

<div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding: 0px;">PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A pair of suicide bombers detonated their explosives outside a historic church in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing 75 people in the deadliest-ever attack on the country's Christian minority, officials said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding: 0px;">A wing of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing in the city of Peshawar, saying it would continue to target non-Muslims until the United States stopped drone attacks in the country's remote tribal region.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi58gd-FEWb05UV-z0OFzNtb0y0OxB3Wgf8Zk1dDMXmVkIkgIgb8SPZG9zjHT5UdIfVYwXiLjZ_2uLJ5sfP5oXVSx03pstebeMPr4QRTAut6aIfin_UiMmedzrXEPXixPIPPpkRmqMVJ-O3/s1600/paki8s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi58gd-FEWb05UV-z0OFzNtb0y0OxB3Wgf8Zk1dDMXmVkIkgIgb8SPZG9zjHT5UdIfVYwXiLjZ_2uLJ5sfP5oXVSx03pstebeMPr4QRTAut6aIfin_UiMmedzrXEPXixPIPPpkRmqMVJ-O3/s640/paki8s.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding: 0px;"><br />
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<img alt="Suicide attack on Pakistani church" height="446" src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/I8SwWLxvaGca7PoXH4zLEA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTcwMjtweW9mZj0wO3E9ODU7dz0xMDA4/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/news/2013-09-22/fb988991-c332-457e-b967-e5c958548c88_RTX13UDN.jpg" width="640" /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding: 0px;">The attack occurred as hundreds of worshippers were coming out of the church in the city's Kohati Gate district after services to get a free meal of rice offered on the front lawn, said a top government administrator, Sahibzada Anees.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding: 0px;">"There were blasts and there was hell for all of us," said Nazir John, who was at the church with at least 400 other worshippers. "When I got my senses back, I found nothing but smoke, dust, blood and screaming people. I saw severed body parts and blood all around."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding: 0px;">Survivors wailed and hugged each other in the wake of the blasts. The white walls of the church, which first opened in the late 1800s, were pockmarked with holes caused by ball bearings or other metal objects contained in the bombs to cause maximum damage. Blood stained the floor and was splashed on the walls. Plates filled with rice were scattered across the ground.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding: 0px;">The attack was carried out by a pair of suicide bombers who detonated their explosives almost simultaneously, said police officer Shafqat Malik. Authorities found their body parts and were trying to determine their age, he said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding: 0px;">The blasts killed 75 people and wounded another 110, said Jamil Shah, a spokesman at the hospital in Peshawar where the victims were being treated. The dead included women and children, said Sher Ali Khan, another doctor at the hospital.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding: 0px;">The number of casualties from the blasts was so high that the hospital was running out of caskets for the dead and beds for the wounded, said Mian Iftikhar Hussain, a former information minister of surrounding Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province who was on the scene.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding: 0px;">"This is the deadliest attack against Christians in our country," said Irfan Jamil, the bishop of the eastern city of Lahore.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding: 0px;">One of the wounded, John Tariq, who lost his father in the attack, asked of the attackers, "What have we done wrong to these people? Why are we being killed?"</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding: 0px;">Ahmad Marwat, who identified himself as the spokesman for the Jundullah wing of the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility for the attack.</div>

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But the Taliban have said the government must release militant prisoners and begin pulling troops out of the northwest tribal region that serves as their sanctuary before they will begin talks.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding: 0px;">Source: <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/suicide-attack-pakistani-church-kills-75-people-132647889.html" style="background-color: transparent;">http://news.yahoo.com/suicide-attack-pakistani-church-kills-75-people-132647889.html</a><br />
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Suicide attack on Pakistani church kills 75 people

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A pair of suicide bombers detonated their explosives outside a historic church in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday,...

Muslim mob attacking Christian church, taking down cross in Egypt

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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 17px;"> Video from Egypt shows Muslim mob attacking Christian church, taking down cross.Newly-surfaced video from Egypt shows a Muslim mob storming a Coptic church, setting cars on fire and then toppling a cross atop the steeple, in a shocking attack that Christians say has been played out dozens of times since the ouster of Mohammad Morsi.</span><br />
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<script type='text/javascript' src='http://ads.qadserve.com/t?id=a2b34d3a-e07c-4678-a7a8-346319aafab6&size=728x90'></script><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 17px;">The video, obtained by MidEast Christian News, was shot Aug. 14 from a nearby building overlooking the diocese in the southern Egyptian city of Sohag. In the six-minute video, a crowd, incensed by the eviction of pro-Morsi supporters from camps in Cairo, masses outside the church. Several members of the group scale a wall and attack vehicles in a courtyard, setting several ablaze. The video culminates in the crown exhorting a man high up on the steeple to take down a cross, which he does.</span> <br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 17px;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 17px;">Dozens of Coptic churches were attacked by members and supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in the wake of the military's move against Morsi, who critics say was turning Egypt into an Islamist state. Christians make up about 10 percent of Egypt's population of 80 million, but Morsi supporters blamed them for his ouster, according to Coptic leaders.</span> <br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 17px;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 17px;">Bishop Makarious, a Coptic leader from Minya, accused Muslim Brotherhood leaders of planning attacks on Christian churches, homes and businesses in an effort to divide the embattled nation.</span> <br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 17px;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 17px;">"We were expecting this scenario weeks before sit-ins were broken up; as it was evident of the incitement being made by Brotherhood leaders against Copts," Makarious told MidEast Christian News. "We were then surprised by the systematic attacks on churches and Copts' properties, many of them occurring at the same time in different places, in a series of attacks made under a plan they called 'Plan B'", which targeted all churches to be burned and destroyed."</span> <br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 17px;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 17px;">The provisional military government has pledged to rebuild Christian churches destroyed by mobs.</span>   <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 17px;"> </span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 17px;">Source: </span><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/08/30/video-from-egypt-shows-muslim-mob-attacking-christian-church-taking-down-cross/">http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/08/30/video-from-egypt-shows-muslim-mob-attacking-christian-church-taking-down-cross/</a> 
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<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">Shouting religious slogans, a mob estimated at 1,000 people has destroyed a Christian church under construction in northern India, according to a report received from church leaders in the region. The attack occurred Sunday.</div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;"><img alt="destroyed church in northern India" height="219" src="http://cdn.charismanews.com/images/stories/featured-news/GFA-before-after-damaged-church-India.jpg" width="400" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">With the building demolished, the mob began to beat the pastor, his mother and church members, who were able to flee and went into hiding for the night. The extent of their injuries is not known. No deaths were reported.</div></div>

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<script type='text/javascript' src='http://ads.qadserve.com/t?id=a2b34d3a-e07c-4678-a7a8-346319aafab6&size=728x90'></script><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">“It is our desire that these who are persecuting will know the love of God for them,” said K.P. Yohannan, Gospel for Asia founder and president.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">The Christian congregation had begun construction more than two years earlier, but quickly met resistance and had been forced to stop the work. After much prayer, the climate seemed to improve and construction resumed. Building had progressed uneventfully to the point that workers were ready to install the roof, when the attack came this week.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">Earlier that afternoon, a small group from the community confronted the pastor and demanded that construction cease, saying the building was not wanted. Recognizing the growing tension, the pastor stopped the work.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">Despite the pastor’s decision, the group rallied the villagers to a meeting and incited them to attack.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">The day after the attack, regional leaders first prayed and then met with local police, who declined to become involved. Despite continuing threats, the leaders returned to the site to survey the damage and take photos.  </div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">Church leaders have requested prayer from believers around the world that God will protect the pastor, his family and the congregation; heal the pastor’s son, whose medicine cannot be obtained in the current uneasy climate; and open the eyes of the villagers so they might experience the love of Jesus in their lives.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">Those who wish to learn more about this event or make a donation can visit <em><a href="http://www.gfa.org/info/church-destroyed" style="color: #0346ae;" target="_blank">gfa.org/info/church-<wbr></wbr>destroyed</a></em>.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">Source: <a href="http://www.charismanews.com/world/40822-1-000-strong-mob-destroys-north-india-church-attacks-members" style="background-color: transparent;">http://www.charismanews.com/world/40822-1-000-strong-mob-destroys-north-india-church-attacks-members</a></div><br />
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