{"id":26155,"date":"2013-08-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/prayer\/pakistan-479\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T21:56:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T20:56:36","slug":"pakistan-479","status":"publish","type":"prayer","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/prayer\/pakistan-479\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakist\u00e1n"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>The challenges in Pakistan today are enormous. Against a background of an energy crisis, political corruption, and high unemployment, religious intolerance and division are on the rise.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But our partners on the ground have reported some encouraging news: there seems to be an increasing awareness of injustices in society. We&#8217;ve met so many inspiring activists who are working for justice, often at great personal risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>HEROES OF THE FAITH<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asiya Nasir occupies a unique position in Pakistani politics \u2013 not only is she a female politician, but she&#8217;s a Christian within an Islamist party. She was one of the few politicians who spoke out boldly after the assassination of the Minorities Minister, Shahbaz Bhatti, and we&#8217;ve been really encouraged by how her faith leads her to work for minority rights and her nation as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This week please:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Thank God for CSW&#8217;s partners, for their bravery and perseverance in the face of daily opposition;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Ask God to protect those working on peace-building, and grant them favour;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray for voices of justice and peace to be amplified, replacing voices of hate and violence;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Ask God to grant true justice to victims of religiously-motivated violence, including cases left unresolved for years;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Ask God to protect Christian and Hindu women and girls at risk of abduction or forced marriage;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Ask God to break drug and alcohol addictions in some of the poorest Christian communities;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray for Christian leaders as they establish trusting relationships in a country where so many divisions stem from mistrust.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The challenges in Pakistan today are enormous. Against a background of an energy crisis, political corruption, and high unemployment, religious intolerance and division are on the rise.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","regions":[126,121],"class_list":["post-26155","prayer","type-prayer","status-publish","hentry","regions-pakistan","regions-south-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/prayer"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40825,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26155\/revisions\/40825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=26155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}