Bishop Samson Shukardin, president of the Pakistan Catholic Bishops' Conference, led a delegation to comfort the family of a Christian paramilitary soldier who was recently killed during a national security operation in Karachi.
A legacy gift from the late Irish priest Fr. Brendan McMullan, together with the longstanding pastoral commitment of the Missionary Society of St. Columban, has enabled a small Catholic community in southern Pakistan to build its first permanent place of worship.
"Seminary formation is sacred, and we must never forget what we have learned in the seminary," says Archbishop Christophe Zakhia El-Kassis, Apostolic Nuncio to Pakistan