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None of the 10 Catholic families in a slum in Pakistan’s Lahore city were observing the Lenten fast when Sr Rubi Munir visited them last week.
Kanwal Rashid, a Catholic woman in the slum, said she observed dawn-to-dust fasting for 13 days this Lent season but discontinued following pain in her back muscles.Catholics in the Muslim-majority nation traditionally spend the whole day without food and drink from dawn to dusk for a month during the Lent period. They break the fast by eating in the evening just as Muslims do during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which began on March 23 this year.
Catholics in Rashid’s slum are engaged in menial jobs at the nearby government-run Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, named after the iconic Hindu engineer and philanthropist considered the"father of modern Lahore." A political and constitutional crisis has gripped the country since last April after former prime minister, Imran Khan, was ousted by a no-confidence vote.
Such families are reluctant to spend the whole day at distribution points waiting for their share of free flour.Like millions of low-income families across the country Catholic families like Rashid’s are also registered under the scheme. Elsewhere, at least 10 people, most of them women, have died and several have been injured or fainted trying to get the free flour so far.Her husband, even with the extra work, barely earns a monthly salary of about 25,000 rupees , which is woefully low with inflation at a nearly 50-year-high in the country.
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