Pakistan: Fourteen-story bulletproof cross gives hope to Christians

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"I said, 'I am going to build a big cross, higher than any in the world, in a Muslim country,'" Gill told the Washing Post last week. "It will be a symbol of God, and everybody who sees this will be worry free."

Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | US Desk
Source/Credit: The Jerusalem Post
By Ariel Cohen | May 18, 2015

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The project aims to give hope to the country's often persecuted Christian minority. 

A 14-story bulletproof cross is set to rise over the largest city in the predominantly Muslim country of Pakistan, amid a recent slew of religious tensions and hostilities towards local Christians.

Pavez Henry Gill, a local Christian living in Kirachi,  reportedly decided to build the church after God appeared to him in a dream and tasked him with improving conditions for the struggling Christians of Pakistan. Gil knew he had to take action, but did not know what to do.

"I said, 'I am going to build a big cross, higher than any in the world, in a Muslim country,'" Gill told the Washing Post last week. "It will be a symbol of God, and everybody who sees this will be worry free."

After four years of construction, the giant cross is almost finished, towering high above the entrance to the Gora Qabaristan Cemetery in Karachi, measuring 140 feet-tall by 42 feet-long. The Christian cemetery, which dates back to the British colonial era, has often been victim to vandalism by local Muslims, who constitute over 90 percent of the Pakistani population.

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