A young girl lights a candle at a Marian grotto in Pakistan. / Magdalena Wolnik.Rome Newsroom, Jan 31, 2022 / 08:00 am (CNA).An Anglican pastor was shot dead after church on Sunday in northwest Pakistan.Two gunmen on motorcycles ambushed a car in which three Christian clergymen were driving home after a Sunday service on Jan. 30 in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, just 34 miles from the Afghanistan border.Rev. William Siraj died instantly from multiple gunshot wounds. He was 75 years old. One other pastor, Rev. Naeem Patrick, sustained a gunshot wound and was treated in a Peshawar hospital.Police are still searching for the two unidentified gunmen who fled the scene, and no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.A memorial service is scheduled to be held in All Saints Anglican Church in Peshawar on Jan. 31.This is the same church that was targeted in a terrorist attack in 2013 by two suicide bombers who killed 85 people and wounded more than 140.Catholic Archbishop Ben.
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