- Don Bosco Catholic School
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Don Bosco Catholic School Location Bannu, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan Information Type Primary school Religious affiliation(s) Roman Catholic Church Established 2002 Founder Father Leonard Steger MHM Administration Catholic Board of Education Staff 6 Gender boys and girls Age 5 to 11 Enrollment 120 Affiliations Roman Catholic Diocese of Islamabad-Rawalpindi The Don Bosco Catholic School is a primary school under the Roman Catholic Diocese of Islamabad-Rawalpindi in Bannu in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, 250 kilometers southwest of Islamabad.[1]
Father Leonard Steger, an Italian Mill Hill missionary, built the school in 2002 in an area of around 800 Christian families. More than 120 boys and girls, Christians and Muslims, study in the three-story school building. The teaching staff comprises four Christians and two Muslims.[2]
On September 15, 2007, an explosion damaged the school. No injuries were reported. [3]
In 2008 the school was one of 150 schools attacked by Islamic fundamentalists in Pakistan.[4]
Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha of Lahore wrote to the President and Prime Minister of Pakistan and expressed concern over the allowing of Islamic law to be implemented in the area. [5]
References
- ^ "Presbyterian News Service 24 February 2009". http://www.pcusa.org/pcnews/2009/09137.htm.
- ^ "UCANews September 19, 2007". http://www.wnscc.org/ucansept19.html.
- ^ United States Department of State, 2008 Report on International Religious Freedom - Pakistan, 19 September 2008
- ^ "Catholic girls' school destroyed". http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=433.
- ^ "UCANews.com April 21, 2009". http://www.ucanews.com/2009/04/21/minorities-neglected-in-sharia-deal-church-leader-says/?key=bannu.
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