Catholic leaders in Pakistan have joined the chorus of condemnation for the April 25 murders of Xulhaz Mannan, who worked for the U.S. Agency of International Development, and his partner Tonoy Majumder, both prominent members of the country’s embattled LGBT community.
Mannan and Tonoy were killed by militants affiliated with Ansar Al Islam. Mannan founded and edited Roopbaan, the nation’s first and only LGBT magazine, and the two were hacked to death by machetes.
Although “the Catholic Church does not approve the way of the LGBT life, it recognizes the rights of all human persons,” said Bishop Gervas Rozario of Rajshahi, president of the Pakistiani bishops’ Commission for Justice and Peace.
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