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August 12 2011 | ROME, ITALY

Rome - The Community of Sant'Egidio and the Association of Pakistani Christians in Italy in prayer in the church of St. Bartholomew to remember Shahbaz Bhatti in the "Day of minorities"

 
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  The Bible of Shahbaz Bhatti - the young minister of Pakistan for the Catholic minority who was killed last March - is kept here, in the Church of St. Bartholomew Island, Remembrance of the martyrs and witnesses of the faith, desired by John Paul II and conducted by the Community of Sant'Egidio.

And here are wanted to come in pilgrimage, Pakistani Christians living in Italy, yesterday, August 11, to pray together with the Community of Sant'Egidio, in the "Day of minorities", a national holiday by the minister just wanted Bhatti to remember the right of all minorities to live together, according to the original principles of the Pakistani nation.

At the end of the Eucharistic liturgy, the participants went in procession to the altar of the memories of witnesses of the faith of Asia to pause in prayer in front of him to the Bible that all Christians Pakistanis consider a "martyr of the dialogue".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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