Local priest condemns arrest of Christian nurses in Pakistan
Nurses Mariam Lal (second left) and Newish Urooj (second right) are pictured with police in this April 2021 photo. The women, both Christian, were accused of violating Pakistan’s blasphemy law during an April 8 shift at the Civil Hospital in Faisalabad. (Photo courtesy of INCPak)
By Gina Christian • Posted April 28, 2021
An archdiocesan priest originally from Pakistan has condemned the recent arrest of two Christian nurses on charges of blasphemy in his native country.
“Unfortunately, the numbers of such false cases against Christian women are increasing,” said Father Tariq Isaac, chaplain of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s Pakistani Catholic community and parochial vicar at St. William Parish in Philadelphia.