Catholic Herald, Joyce Duriga:The Sharifs were living contentedly in Pakistan when life turned into a nightmare in 2012.
A terrorist group called BLA targeted Amir Sharif, a Catholic and a well-known professor at a university in Quetta. He was told to embrace Islam or leave the country.
Amir, 45, and his wife, Saira, 30, a maths teacher, and their two sons, Unss, nine, and Runaan, 10, were under threat. Persecution of and discrimination against Christians in Pakistan is a common occurrence, Amir said. They, like others, lived in fear of being accused of violating the part of the country’s penal code that criminalises blasphemy against Islam, the state-recognised religion. Story is here.
