{"id":26608,"date":"2022-08-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/prayer\/prayer-diary-pakistan-5785\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T21:57:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T20:57:59","slug":"prayer-diary-pakistan-5785","status":"publish","type":"prayer","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/prayer\/prayer-diary-pakistan-5785\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer Diary: Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/a08186f149b7f88e2b2b63e8959ba5c0.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>\u2018Such heart-rending incidents represent our collective failure and put our whole society to shame. No girl deserves to go through this.\u2019 \u2013 Shehbaz Sharif, currently Prime Minister (then Leader of the Opposition)<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pooja Kumari was only 18 when she was shot and killed in March this year, by a man who broke into her home with two other men. They initially attempted to abduct her before shooting her. Reportedly he had previously asked her to marry him, and she had refused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every year hundreds of Hindu girls, like Pooja, and Christian girls are abducted and forced into marriage with Muslim men. Many of them are minors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">M\u00e1s informaci\u00f3n en <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/our_work_country_pakistan.htm\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>csw.org.uk\/pakistan<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Sunday 7 August<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pray for comfort and peace for Pooja\u2019s family. Her attacker was arrested shortly afterwards, and reportedly confessed to the murder. Pray that justice will be done swiftly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Monday 8 August<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pray that the government will take strong action to combat the issue of abductions, forced conversion and forced marriage, so that Pooja\u2019s tragic murder will be the last ever case of violence against a girl from a religious minority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Tuesday 9 August<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Muslim man said to be suffering from mental illness was killed by a mob in February, after he was accused of burning pages of the Qur\u2019an. Pakistan\u2019s blasphemy laws are often used against both Muslims and non-Muslims to settle personal scores or to resolve disputes over money, property or business. Pray that these laws would be amended or repealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Wednesday 10 August<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank God that the chapter on religious minorities has been reinstated in a key textbook in Pakistan\u2019s curriculum &#8211; for years religious minorities have been written out of the country\u2019s past, and schoolchildren have learned a distorted version of history. This is just one victory following our Faith and a Future campaign, which many of you took part in, campaigning for an end to religion-based discrimination in education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Thursday 11 August<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2019 the UK government informed one state that it would receive no further funding for education while its textbooks contained hate speech. This was another of our campaign calls &#8211; praise God that this issue is being taken seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Friday 12 August<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; love and faithfulness go before you.\u2019 &#8211; Psalm 89:14. Pray that Pakistan\u2019s government would be characterised by righteousness and justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Saturday 13 August<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Father God, we know that your heart is broken by the injustices that led to Pooja Kumari\u2019s death, and that you grieve with her family. We ask you to comfort them, that Pooja\u2019s memory would be a blessing to them, and that her death will lead to lasting change. Amen.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2022-08-05-weekly-prayer-diary.pdf\">Download a PDF copy of the Prayer Diary<\/a><\/b><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily prayer points for Pakistan<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8411,"template":"","regions":[126,121],"class_list":["post-26608","prayer","type-prayer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","regions-pakistan","regions-south-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26608","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41278,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26608\/revisions\/41278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=26608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}