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‘Humanity is Humiliated’

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Protesters in Karachi demand justice for Shehzad Masih and Shama Bibi. Asif Hassan—AFP

Protesters in Karachi demand justice for Shehzad Masih and Shama Bibi. Asif Hassan—AFP

Vatican official condemns lynching of Christian couple in Pakistan over blasphemy allegations.

A top Vatican official has described the lynching of a Christian couple in Pakistan as a humiliation for all of humanity.

Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the chair of the Roman Catholic Church’s council for interfaith dialogue, said he had been profoundly shocked by accounts of the horrific death of Shehzad Masih and Shama Bibi.

Shehzad, a bonded laborer, and his pregnant wife were beaten by a mob of 1,500 people then thrown on top of a lit furnace on Tuesday in a crazed reaction to rumors they had thrown pages of the Quran into the garbage.

“How can we remain impassive before such crimes, justified in the name of religion?” Tauran said on Vatican Radio, urging Muslim leaders in Pakistan to vigorously condemn the killings. “It is all of humanity that is humiliated,” he said, adding: “The first victims are in fact Muslims because these misdeeds give an image of Islam that is terrible.”

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