“All the Christian families in the village are bondservants”

Pakistan Land Donated for Baptist Church

A plot of land has been donated for the construction of a Baptist church in a village in Pakistan. Approximately 79 Christian families, most of them bondservants, live in Ghumanke village, appropriately two and a half hours by road from Lahore, the second largest city in Pakistan. “All the Christian families in the village are bondservants,” reported Samuel Ahsan, executive director of Save & Serve for Christ Ministries, based in Lahore.

As bondservants, these Christians are virtual slaves.

“We can’t do anything without our owners’ permission,” the villagers claimed. They alleged that their “owners” do not allow them to send their children to school. The closest church to the village is 21 kilometers or 13 miles away.

Christian families, most of them bondservants, in Ghumanke village, some 2½ hours from Lahore in Pakistan