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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Wed May 27, 2015, 10:24 AM May 2015

Will This Pakistani Businessman's 140-Foot Cross Bring Hope To The Country's Christians

Carol Kuruvilla

A Pakistani businessman has big dreams for the 140-foot cross he’s building at the entrance of Karachi's largest Christian cemetery.

Parvez Henry Gill, 58, says the bulletproof concrete structure will be the tallest cross in Asia and a “sign" that God is everywhere.

His message is aimed at Pakistani Christians, who make up about 1.5 percent of the Muslim-majority country, although this figure could be higher. Gill's city, Karachi, is home to Pakistan's largest Christian population.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/26/pakistan-christians-cross_n_7445372.html?utm_hp_ref=religion

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Will This Pakistani Businessman's 140-Foot Cross Bring Hope To The Country's Christians (Original Post) hrmjustin May 2015 OP

Afraid it will become a target goldent May 2015 #1

goldent

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1. Afraid it will become a target

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Thu May 28, 2015, 08:36 AM

May 2015

Quite revealing that it was described as "bulletproof"

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