Humanitarian testifies to discrimination against Christian women in Pakistan
"There are so many events that I have experienced throughout my life where I felt my safety would be compromised by my religious identity. The day Asia Bibi was released, it was national chaos for the Christians."
The organization for the defense of persecuted Christians International Christian Concern questioned a member of his team based in Pakistan about the discrimination suffered by women in this Islamic Republic.
She begins by evoking the double discrimination of which she is the victim, as a woman, but also as a Christian. "It's a double threat," she explains.
The humanitarian then testifies to the discrimination suffered at the university.
"I was discriminated against in my university while studying in a private university in Lahore. Being the only Christian student in the electrical engineering department, I faced a lot of discrimination. A teacher deliberately gave me an F grade because of my faith, and I repeated this course three times during this teacher's tenure, without getting a grade other than an F. However, I managed to get an A as soon as the teacher was replaced."
She then returns to the Asia Bibi affair. “We learned to hide our true feelings for the Asia Bibi case and to behave at university by not taking part in any discussion,” she explains.
"There are so many events that I have experienced throughout my life where I felt my safety would be compromised by my religious identity. The day Asia Bibi was released, it was national chaos for the Christians."
The humanitarian also wants to talk about the audacity of Christian women to share the Gospel.
"In most cases, Christian women in Pakistan are the breadwinners in their households. (...) Christian women in Pakistan are brave and bold enough to be witnesses and sources of the true Gospel in their place of residence. work and in their groups because of their living example. They share Christianity boldly enough in their conduct and behavior. They are ambassadors of Christ in the Muslim community of Pakistan."
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