tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68491910953440703162024-02-07T18:01:14.210-08:00 CUWAP NEWSSince 2006, through this blog, we have endeavored to create awareness about Christian literary personalities and their contributions to the worldwide Urdu speaking Christian community. However, as www.cuwap.org website now serves that purpose more effectively,our team has decided to dedicate this blog as a news sharing site. Kindly send relevant items for publication to the e-addresses provided. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849191095344070316.post-50397522415185815342015-06-03T11:47:00.000-07:002015-06-03T12:10:15.572-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">She began writing poetry while at school. Her literary journy has continued without any let, and she has published her first book, <em>Hawa ka rukh badalna chahtee hou<strike>n</strike> </em>( ہوا کا رخ بدلنا چاہتی ہوں ).</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849191095344070316.post-21413100221573591552014-09-28T14:29:00.001-07:002014-10-02T10:14:47.980-07:00Ecumenical Serivce of Thanksgiving for British Missionaries<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">27th Sept 2014, London: A large group of Pakistani background Christians gathered in the St. Martin in the Fields church to express their gratitude to the British missionaries who risked everything to bring the Gospel truths to the Indian region that now constitutes Pakistan. The service was attended by the former missionaries, their children, those interested in the church works in Pakistan and nearly a hundred Pakistanis. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"The Christian story may have begun in what is now Pakistan much earlier than people imagine. Did St Thomas the Apostle come to Taxila and convert its king? The city was a considerable centre of commerce and learning in the reign of Gondaphares, whose conversion to Christianity is claimed in the apocryphal <i>Acts of Thomas.</i> There is also evidence of Christianity in Baluchistan, Sindh and the Punjab up until the end of the 7th century - the result of evangelism by Persian Christians. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">From 1803 British universities for several years held a prize competition for essays on 'the best means of extending the blessings of civilization and true religion among the inhabitants of Hinduism'. For all the ethnocentric assumptions those phrases carry, British missionaries of the calibre of the Baptist 'Serampore Trio' of Marshman, Ward and Carey, and the Anglicans Benjamin Bailey, Joseph Fennn and Henry Baker, Claudius Buchannan and Henry Martyn, to whom we owe the Urdu Bible, made an entry in his journal about the Qur'an: 'Felt much shame at being obliged to confess much ignorance of many things which I ought to know', and publicly urged the recognition of 'eastern ways of seeing, imagining and reasoning'. The first Scottish missionary, Thomas Hunter along with his wife, Jane Scott, and baby son, came to Sialkot in January 1857. The Hunter family were killed during the Indian mutiny later that year, but their name lives on in the name of the parish church in Sialkot, Hunter Memorial Church, where generations of Christians have worshiped. </span></div>
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Lahore: In Quetta the Hazara community was targeted for being "Hazara", in Karachi the Shiite community was targeted for being Shiite. So let's just accept the fact that the Christians in Joseph Colony, Badami Bagh, Lahore, were targeted for being Christians. Xenophobic madness is not an excuse; it is a well thought-out strategy to destabilize Pakistan. Even a casual glance at the history of Pakistan over the last three decades reveals the mathematical predictability of these cowardly acts of destroying Pakistan bit by bit. Cowardly, yes. How else would you describe three to four thousand armed men marching on the houses of 178 unarmed slum dwelling Christians.</div>
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Internally nothing has destabilized Pakistan more than the internationally infamous and controversial laws generally referred to as "the Blasphemy laws". The total price of these laws to the state of Pakistan will always remain incalculable, for to reach the final figure invaluable factors such as human lives, international goodwill, inter-community harmony and fear and psychological maladies caused by it need accounted for. There just is no formula to do so, and indeed none can be developed. However Pakistan in its own way has worked out a formula to deal with situations that keep arising.</div>
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Dr. Yousaf Masih Yad's book <b><i>Bethlehem Kay Shehr Main</i></b> (بیت لحم کے شہر میں ) second edition is now available in the market. The current includes updates and three new articles by the author.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">ڈاکٹر یوسف مسیح یاد نے قدیم و جدید علوم سے بھرپور استفادہ کیا ہے اور اس علم کو مسیحی اقدار عالیہ کی ترویج و فروغ کے لیۓ کامیابی کے ساتھ استعمال کر رہیں ہیں .ان کی قابلیت اوت نابغہ شخصیات کے سب سے اہم پہلو ان کی ہقنواز یکسوئی خود ا عتمادی اور راست خدمت کے لئے تخلیقی محسن کو شعا ر حیات بنا کر کل نوع بشر کی حق کے پیغا م کو اس اہمیت کے ساتھ پیش کرنا ہے جو قدر مطلق خداۓ مہربان کے نزدیک قبل پزیرائی ہے .</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">علامہ ڈاکٹر یوسف مسیح یاد کی زیر نظر تخلیقی کاوش "بیت لحم کے شہر میں " مسیحی تواریخ کی ان صداقت آشنا بنیادوں پر نقش جاوداں کا درجہ رکھتی ہے جس کی بدولت نا شناس حق لوگ اپنی فلاح و بقا کے لیے سچی راہوں کا تعین کرنے میں رہنمائی پا سکیں گے ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> "بیت لحم کے شہر میں " کرسمس کے تاریخی رائج رسومات کی جا مع اور کلیدی حیثیت رکھتی ہے. کرسمس کے ایام میں علما پاسبان بھی اس کتاب کی تحریرات سے خود بھی مستفید ہوتے اور کلیسیا کو بھی مستفید کرتے ہیں .کیونکہ ڈاکٹر صاحب نے کرسمس کی رسومات کی ما لا پرو کر کتاب میں درج کر دی ہے. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">اس کے علاوہ بیت لحم کی جغرافیائی حدود اربحہ اور ان شخصیات کا بھی ذکر کیا ہے جن کا اس شہر سے واسطہ رہا ہے . چرنی، چرنی چوک، بیت سا حور ، خواتین کا گرجہ ، پیدائش گرجہ کا بڑی عمدگی سے ذکر کیا ہے... </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">... یاد صاحب نے ہمارے ہاں کے تمام پہلوانی ادب پیدا کرنے والے حضرات کی نسبت وہ موضوع چھیڑے ہیں جن پر کوئی قلم نہیں اٹھاتا -کیونکہ انھیں تحقیق اور غوطہ زنی کی عادت نہیں - ان </span><span style="font-size: large;">موضوعات میں کرسمس کارڈ ، کرسمس ٹری ،مختلف ممالک میں کرسمس اور خصوصی توڑ پر ٢٥ دسمبر پر ان کا نیا نظریہ اور دیگر بہت سے </span><span style="font-size: large;">موضوع ہیں جو کہ انہوں نے اس کتاب میں شامل کیے ہیں - ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">تاریخ نویسی محنت طلب فن اور بہت مشکل علم ہے. اور تاریخ دانی اس سے کہیں بڑھ کر مشکل تر ہے - مگر ڈاکٹر یوسف مسیح یاد نہ صرف تاریخ نویسی کے ماہر اور تاریخ دان ہیں بلکہ تاریخ فہمی اور تاریخی واقعیات کی اصلیت (historicity) تک پہنچنے میں بھی کمال رکھتے ہیں -</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">ان کی یہ کتاب </span><span style="font-size: large;">"بیت لحم کے شہر میں " اس بات کی دلیل ہے کہ وہ تاریخی جواہر کی تلاش میں فضول اور کم قیمت پتھروں ایر کنکروں کو نظر انداز کرنے کا سلیقہ خوب جانتے ہیں - ان کا یہی ہنر انھیں معلومات کی کانوں سے ایسے دید ہ زیب اوربیش بہا معدنیاتی ٹکڑے جمح کرے میں رہنمائی کرتا ہے جو علمیت ، تاریخیت ، منطق ، فلسفے ، جغرافیہ ،علم ریاضی ، اور علم الہی کی کسی بھی کسوٹی پر پرکھنے پر ہمیشہ خالص سونا ثابت ہوتے ہیں -</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">تاریخ دانی صرف تاریخی واقعا ت کو وقت کی رو سے ترتیب وار بیان کر دینے کا نام ہی نہیں بلکہ اہم واقعات کی انفرادی اور مجموئی اہمیت کو ان کے آفاقی سیاق و سبا ق میں پہلے خود سمجھنے اور پھر دوسروں کو سمجھا نے کی غرض سے انہیں منطقی اور رواں پیراے میں آراستہ کرنے کا فن ہے -ڈاکٹر یاد کی یہ چھوٹی سی کتاب کائنات کے سب سے بڑے معجزاتی واقعہ ، یعنی خدا کے انسانی شکل میں آنے کی تاریخی حقیقت پر روحانی ، فلسفائی ،ثقافتی اور ادبی جھلکیاں پیش کرتی ہے. ...</span><br />
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