The priest from Pakistan

By 2023-03-21T06:50:00

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A Christian in a Muslim majority country, Amelia Jacob, 71, had an arranged marriage and moved to England, later becoming one of the first female priests in the Church of England

I was born on 13 May 1952, in the town of Faisalabad, Pakistan. My Dada’s, (father’s father) family were Hindus by faith, Kshatriyas by caste (second in hierarchy in the Hindu caste system) and goldsmiths by profession. When Dada was a high school student, on his way home he received Christian tracts from British missionaries. Something about the words of the Lord’s Prayer touched his heart. Because of him I was brought up as a Christian.

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