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What Pope Francis' choice of a Pakistani cardinal means for Christians of the country

  • Written by Myriam Renaud, PhD Candidate in Religious Thought and Ethics, University of Chicago
What Pope Francis' choice of a Pakistani cardinal means for Christians of the countryPakistani Christians attend Easter service in Lahore in April 2018.AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary

Pope Francis will create 14 cardinals on June 29, among them Pakistan’s Joseph Coutts, currently the archbishop of Karachi. What might come as a surprise to some people is that Pakistan, though a majority-Muslim country, is home to some 2.5 million...

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