Pakistan: "Prayers please...If we teach them to love, then there is hope".
LAHORE: 15th February 2006 -- To steal a line from our UK counterpart, Rualink, 'Prayers please' for our Salesians and for many others in Pakistan. This morning's direct information from Pakistan is disturbing, but it is also a useful reflection and stimulus to prayer. Anyone who has been through experiences of mob violence, be it a coup or 'cartoon' reaction, has a certain feeling of helplessness which only strong faith can counteract. I think you will sense both in the drama being played out in the lines that follow. The writer is mailing from outside of Lahore, since duty took him elsewhere, but he is in touch there and feels the immediate need to return there.....
"Unfortunately the effects of the famous cartoons are now very much felt in
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