TCE 58: Persecuted Christians in the East.

Padre Peregrino

Fr. Dave Nix

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Mr. Joseph Janssen is a Pakistani Catholic whose sister was tortured and imprisoned for Christ for eight years. To free her, he founded https://voiceforjustice.eu. Joseph’s sister was then released and she wrote a book called, “Under Threat of Death: A Mother's Faith in the Face of Injustice”: https://a.co/d/6oFUpbW Novena for the release from prison of [...]

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0:00.0	It's Father David Nix on the Padre Peregrino podcast.
0:03.0	Today I am joined by a Pakistani Catholic named Joseph Jansen and his full bio that we couldn't read on the other forum reads this.
0:12.0	Joseph Jansen is a dedicated Catholic human rights advocate who founded Voice for Justice, a nonprofit organization with a mission to bring sexually enslaved, trafficked, and forcibly converted Christian minor girls and women to freedom.
0:25.7	The organization provides legal aid, education, and skill development while fighting for persecuted Christians, especially those imprisoned and sentenced to death,
0:35.7	awaiting execution simply because of their faith in Christ.
0:40.2	Joseph, thanks for joining us today.
0:42.0	Thank you so much for having me, of course.
0:44.7	So before we get to the real center of this issue today, I want to make it clear to our listeners
0:52.7	why this is such a special guest. Joseph doesn't
0:55.8	just study these things from afar. This issue of Muslims kidnapping Christians is extremely
1:04.6	close to his family. And before we get into this, I want to give our listeners just a little
1:08.9	bit of an understanding why this is so
1:11.5	close. We'll delve into this more later, but Joseph, can you give us just the 60-second version
1:18.1	of what happened to your sister? We'll give you five, ten minutes to describe that later,
1:22.9	but give us the 60-second version of what happened to your sister in Pakistan there.
1:33.4	My sister and her husband were living in a city, Kodhra, in Pakistan, where they were falsely accused of committing blasphemy, like sending a blasphemous text message to the high-rank
1:40.1	person, a person who was the president of the bar association and a high rank level
1:46.5	a mom. And they were accused of blasphemy in 2014, they were sentenced to death. And they were,
1:54.2	they spent eight years in isolation, both in different prisons. And that's, they have suffered. and by the grace of God, later they were released.
2:04.6	That's what happened that my sister has to suffer falsely because of her faith.
2:09.6	So your sister was in prison because she was Catholic for eight years?
2:15.4	Yes.
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