Pakistan’s biggest city has unlikely addition to skyline: 14-story Christian cross

A Christian businessman is building a 140-foot cross in the middle of Pakistan's largest city. The cross, expected to be completed this summer, is being billed as the "largest cross in Asia" and is designed to make Pakistan's oppressed Christian minority hopeful about its future in Karachi. (Tim Craig/Tim Craig/The Washington Post)

 

A view of the cross in Karachi. (Tim Craig/Tim Craig/The Washington Post)

By Tim Craig-May 15

KARACHI, Pakistan — Pakistani businessman Parvez Henry Gill says he was sleeping when God crashed into one of his dreams and gave him a job: Find a way to protect Christians in Pakistan from violence and abuse. “I want you to do something different,” God told him.

Pakistan’s Biggest City Has Unlikely Addition to Skyline 14-Story Christian Cross by Thavam Ratna