Source: ET
Bishop Lal says all religions preached love for humanity and this common ground should be highlighted by religious scholars.
Members of minority faiths feel increasingly insecure in Pakistan, particularly when someone makes blasphemous caricatures or movies in the West, said the speakers. Reacting to insults to Islam by resorting to lawlessness and destroying the properties of Pakistanis, both Muslim and non-Muslim, made no sense, they said.
The seminar, titled Interfaith and Intra-faith Harmony, was organised by the Working Women’s Development Foundation (WWDF) with the support of the Christian Study Centre.
“We need to … stop making the lives of minorities miserable. The basic agent of change in this regard could be schools, where the curriculum should stop teaching hate against different religions,” said human rights activist Tariq Awan.