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A Release partner has won a major victory for prisoners of faith in Pakistan by persuading a jail in Punjab to allow a church on its premises.

Sharing Life Ministry Pakistan (SLMP) has been campaigning for some time to persuade prisons to provide a prayer room for Christian inmates – and the high-security Adiala jail in Rawalpindi has responded very favourably indeed.

In fact building work on a new church within the prison compound has already begun. 'Christian prisoners are overjoyed (…) and are constructing the church building with great zeal,' says SLMP's Sohail Johnson.

Christian prisoners at Adiala jail went on hunger strike last year when they were denied access to a room they had used for prayer – a laundry room. SLMP staged a protest outside the Lahore Press Club in March 2007 to draw attention to the Christians' demands for a place to worship. Currently, only two out of Punjab's 32 prisons have churches.

(Sources: Assist News Service, Sharing Life Ministry Pakistan)

Thank God for the success of prisoners' and SLMP's campaign for a church.

Ask God to bless Sharing Life Ministry Pakistan and protect its workers.

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