{"id":32550,"date":"2021-02-08T11:45:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T19:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masihitv.com\/?p=32550"},"modified":"2021-09-18T11:09:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T18:09:03","slug":"christianity-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masihitv.com\/?p=32550","title":{"rendered":"Christianity in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christianity\">Christianity<\/a> is the third largest religion in Pakistan.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christianity_in_Pakistan#cite_note-2017_Census-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christianity_in_Pakistan#cite_note-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup> According to the 2017 Census, the proportion of Christians in Pakistan was estimated as about 1.27% of the population.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christianity_in_Pakistan#cite_note-2017_Census-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup> Of these, approximately half are <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catholic\">Catholic<\/a> and half <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Protestant\">Protestant<\/a>. A <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eastern_Orthodoxy_in_Pakistan\">small number of Eastern Orthodox Christians<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oriental_Orthodox_Christianity\">Oriental Orthodox Christians<\/a> also live in Pakistan.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christianity_in_Pakistan#cite_note-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christianity_in_Pakistan#cite_note-ReferenceA-5\">[5]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christianity_in_Pakistan#cite_note-Al_Jazeera-6\">[6]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christianity_in_Pakistan#cite_note-Telushkin2018-7\">[7]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 75 percent of Pakistan&#8217;s Christians are rural <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Punjabi_Christians\">Punjabi Christians<\/a>, with the remainder including more affluent <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Goan_Christians\">Goan Christians<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anglo-Indians\">Anglo-Indians<\/a>.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christianity_in_Pakistan#cite_note-Jacobsen2011-8\">[8]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christianity_in_Pakistan#cite_note-Coren2014-9\">[9]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Punjabi Christians are mainly <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dalit_Christians\">Dalit Christians<\/a>\u2014descendants of lower-caste <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hindus\">Hindus<\/a> who <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conversion_to_Christianity\">converted<\/a> during the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colonial_India\">colonial era in India<\/a>\u2014their dire socio-economic conditions facilitate religious discrimination; for example, it is estimated that Christians fill about 80% of the manual sewer cleaning jobs in the whole of Pakistan.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christianity_in_Pakistan#cite_note-10\">[10]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christianity_in_Pakistan#cite_note-Phan2011-11\">[11]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christianity_in_Pakistan#cite_note-12\">[12]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christianity is the third largest religion in Pakistan.[1][3] According to the 2017 Census, the proportion of Christians in Pakistan was estimated as about 1.27% of the population.[1] Of these, approximately half are Catholic and half Protestant. A small number of Eastern Orthodox Christians and Oriental Orthodox Christians also live in Pakistan.[4][5][6][7] Around 75 percent of Pakistan&#8217;s Christians are rural Punjabi Christians, with the remainder including more affluent Goan Christians and Anglo-Indians.[8][9] As Punjabi Christians are mainly Dalit Christians\u2014descendants of lower-caste Hindus who converted during the colonial era in India\u2014their dire<a href=\"https:\/\/masihitv.com\/?p=32550\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masihitv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masihitv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masihitv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masihitv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masihitv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masihitv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32552,"href":"https:\/\/masihitv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32550\/revisions\/32552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masihitv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masihitv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masihitv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masihitv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}