Saint Anthony's Church

Lawrence Rd

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St. Anthony's Church, Lahore, 270 kilometers southeast of Islamabad, was consecrated in 1899 and is one of the oldest churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lahore in Pakistan. It was formerly called the "Railway Church". Father Andrew Francis was pastor of St. Anthony's Parish until becoming Bishop of Multan in 2000.Father Emmanuel Asi, one of the country's leading theologians, took over as parish priest at St. Anthony's in 2000. In order to improve relations between Christians and Muslims, Church officials of St. Anthony's Church organized a Christian-Muslim meeting on November 19, 2005, to form a Christian Muslim Rabita (cooperation) Society in Lahore

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