Daughters of St. Paul, Pakistan

Daughters of St. Paul, Pakistan

The Daughters of Saint Paul are a Roman Catholic religious order for women. In Pakistan, the Sisters have two communities in Lahore and Karachi. There are 12 nuns, five of whom are local women, 8 novices and 20 aspirants. Sister Daniela Baronchelli who has worked in Pakistan for 22 years founded the first local community of the Daughters of St Paul in Karachi in 1986. .[1]

In every mission they put evangelisation first, followed by programmes of spiritual and material assistance to the poor with a series of initiatives: social centres, medical care, education. They give special attention to children and young people. In Pakistan they have a primary and a secondary school and various other activities.[2]

The sisters are involved in the wider area of communications. Sister Magdaline Ishaq chaired a World Communications Day seminar at her convent in Lahore on April 27, 2008. The nuns run three communications centers in Lahore, Karachi and Rawalpindi. The Daughters of St. Paul also conducted one-hour lectures on communication and its effects in a number of Catholic schools.[3]

The police raided the Sisters' bookshop in Karachi in June 2005, for allegedly issuing literature or materials which hurt the feelings or beliefs of other religions. The Daughters of St. Paul have been selling CDs, videos and Christian literature and material about the Christian religion and moral teachings in Karachi since 1948.[4]

The sisters also have a bookshop on the premises of the Sacred Heart Cathedral, Lahore. The Cathedral was one of several buildings damaged or destroyed by a bomb blast in Lahore in May 2009.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Agenzia Fides". http://www.fides.org/eng/religiosi/fspaolo.html. 
  2. ^ "FIDES Service 25 October 2008". http://www.fides.org/eng/documents/Missionari_S._Paolo_eng.doc. 
  3. ^ "UCANews.com May 2, 2008". http://www.ucanews.com/2008/05/02/biblical-sms-messages-inspire-recipients/. 
  4. ^ "Countercurrents.org 03 October, 2006". http://www.countercurrents.org/pak-faiz031006.htm. 
  5. ^ "UCANews.com May 29, 2009". http://www.ucanews.com/2009/05/29/lahore-blast-damages-church-buildings/?key=sacred+heart+high+school+. 

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