US Church speaks out against Pakistan anti-Christian attacks
The bishop of Orlando, who is chairman of the Committee on International Policy, wrote to the Pakistani Ambassador in the US to protest “in the strongest terms possible” the “terrorist attacks” against churches in Sukkur. The American bishops had already sent a letter to the diplomat when the events in Sangla Hill took place, but they never received a reply.

Orlando (AsiaNews) – The US bishops have launched a strong and direct protest to Islamabad against the latest attacks against churches in Pakistan and they have expressed solidarity with the country’s “defenceless” Christian community. Mgr Thomas G. Wenski, bishop of Orlando and chairman of the Committee on International Policy, sent a letter to the Pakistani ambassador to the United States, Jehangir Karamat, calling on him to convey to Islamabad “the deep sorrow and distress” felt by “many friends of Pakistan” in the USA about the “seemingly unchecked attacks against the loyal and peaceful Christian minority, both Catholic and Protestant, in your country”. The rest