Christian activist slain in Pakistan

May 02, 2012

Chaudhry Irshad Younas, a Pakistani Christian involved in politics, was murdered in Lahore on April 27.

Local sources told the Fides news agency that Younas was “a leader ready to speak out against injustice, passionate in the fight to bring change, who sacrificed his life for the poor and the marginalized Christians.”

 

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Further information:

• A Christian leader killed in the bloodiest month in the history of the country (Fides)