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Six, newly baptized,
die in Pakistan blast
Our mission: To inform,
inspire and unite
Vol. 73, No. 51 May 2016
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for Churches of Christ
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"Story of God" host Morgan Freeman
smiles during an interview at the
Carrollton Avenue Church of Christ.
by terrorists who said Christians
were their target — killed at least
69 people immediately, according
to a government spokesman. Four
members of a Church of Christ in
Lahore were among the dead.
An additional 17 church members
were sent to hospitals, Masih said.
Three days after the blast, two
of them died from their injuries,
Kaleem told The Christian Chronicle.
Earlier Sunday, Churches of Christ
See PAKISTAN, Page 15
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PHOTOS PROVIDED BY ASHER KALEEM
Eric Masih and Asher Kaleem visit and
pray with a survivor of the suicide attack.
They loved to sing. And they were
good listeners — especially when
they heard the Word of God.
That’s how Asher Kaleem, a
minister in Lahore, Pakistan,
described the six Church of Christ
members killed in an explosion at a
public park on March 27.
Baptized less that four months
earlier, the members, ranging in age
from 18 to 35, were among hundreds
of Pakistanis who gathered in
Gulshan-e-Iqbal park in Lahore, a city
of 5.1 million souls, the second-largest
in the predominantly Muslim nation,
to celebrate the Easter holiday.
“The explosion occurred in the
parking area ... close to children’s
swings,” said Eric Masih, another
minister who works with Churches
of Christ in Lahore. “Witnesses said
they saw body parts strewn across
the parking lot once the dust had
settled after the blast.”
The suicide bombing — claimed
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AFTER A TERRORIST ATTACK aimed at Christians, Churches of Christ
mourn the victims but are ‘stronger in their faith,’ minister says.
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Days after the bomb blast that killed dozens of people in Lahore, Pakistan, members
of the city's Christian community, including ministers from Churches of Christ, prayed
for the victims — Christian and Muslim — at a vigil. Four victims'families attended.
Not even if you’re an Academy
Award-winning actor named Morgan
Freeman — in the Big Easy to
interview Marsalis and his wife,
Angela, for the National Geographic
Channel series “The Story of God.”
“Some of the folks, including one
of my sons, was watching me to see
how I was going to react,” the father
of four said, referring to Freeman’s
presence at a Sunday worship
assembly. “My son said, ‘Pops, you
never called this man out one time.’”
od doesn’t play favorites.
g Charles Marsalis stresses
that message at the Hollygrove
Church of Christ, the New
Orleans congregation he and his
wife, Angela, planted in a high-crime
neighborhood after Hurricane Katrina.
“I’m just plain ol’ Charles,” the
minister said. “I’m not going to treat
anybody differently, no matter who
you are.”
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Of course, the actor who played
God in the box-office hit “Bruce
Almighty” and its sequel, “Evan
Almighty,” was impossible to miss.
So were the cameras that filmed
the congregation singing “Shelter
in the Time of Storm.”
Marsalis did address Freeman
when the star jokingly took money
out of the collection plate. “Boy, you
about to get whooped in the church,”
the minister said he told him.
See STORY OF GOD, Page 12
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