Catholic Public High School
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The Catholic Public High School in Sangota
, in the Swat Valley, Pakistan
was built in 1962 under the Roman Catholic Diocese of Islamabad-Rawalpindi
.
The school for girls was closed on September 10, 2007, after a letter warned the Sisters running the school to close the "factory of Christians" or face suicide attacks. Jan Nisaran-e-Islam (sacrificers of Islam) sent the letter to Swat Press Club, and local newspapers published it on September 9. It re-opened on 17 September after the Swat district coordination officer assured protection for the convent and the school.
In June 2009 it was destroyed by raiders, according to a report from the Pakistani Bishops Justice and Peace Commission.
The girls' boarding school, run by the Carmelite Sisters was attacked with explosives that destroyed the building. No victims were reported, as the Sisters themselves had closed the school, as a precaution. The school had nearly 1,000 students mainly from poor Christian and Muslim families.
According to the Church, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa has suffered attacks on nearly 150 schools in recent years, a sign of the rise in intolerance and the spread of Islamic fundamentalist groups that are trying to annihilate the work of Christian institutions in the area of education.
Sangota
Sangota is a village in Swat District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. It is located at 34°47'0N 72°25'0E with an altitude of 1120 metres ....
, in the Swat Valley, Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
was built in 1962 under the Roman Catholic Diocese of Islamabad-Rawalpindi
Roman Catholic Diocese of Islamabad-Rawalpindi
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Islamabad-Rawalpindi is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Pakistan....
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The school for girls was closed on September 10, 2007, after a letter warned the Sisters running the school to close the "factory of Christians" or face suicide attacks. Jan Nisaran-e-Islam (sacrificers of Islam) sent the letter to Swat Press Club, and local newspapers published it on September 9. It re-opened on 17 September after the Swat district coordination officer assured protection for the convent and the school.
In June 2009 it was destroyed by raiders, according to a report from the Pakistani Bishops Justice and Peace Commission.
The girls' boarding school, run by the Carmelite Sisters was attacked with explosives that destroyed the building. No victims were reported, as the Sisters themselves had closed the school, as a precaution. The school had nearly 1,000 students mainly from poor Christian and Muslim families.
According to the Church, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa has suffered attacks on nearly 150 schools in recent years, a sign of the rise in intolerance and the spread of Islamic fundamentalist groups that are trying to annihilate the work of Christian institutions in the area of education.