Fr Inayat Bernard is the parish priest of Our Lady of Sorrows Church, Kasur

Our Lady of Sorrows Church, Kasur

Oblate Father Pervez Raza is parish priest of Our Lady of Sorrows Church based in Kasur. The parish is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lahore in Pakistan....

, 55 kilometres south of Lahore, in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lahore

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lahore

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lahore is an archdiocese in Punjab, Pakistan.-History:It was founded as a diocese on 1 September 1886, having previously been the Vicariate of Punjab. On 23 April 1994 the diocese was elevated to the rank of Archdiocese. Fr...

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Father Bernard, ordained a priest for Lahore diocese in 1980, graduated from the Punjab University

University of the Punjab

University of the Punjab , colloquially known as Punjab University, is located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. The University of the Punjab is the oldest and biggest University of Pakistan. The University of the Punjab was formally established with the convening of the first meeting of its...

. Until July 1987 he was editor of Catholic Naqib

Catholic Naqib

The Catholic Naqib is the oldest Urdu-language Catholic magazine, founded in Lahore, Pakistan in 1929 and published by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lahore.Until July 1987 Fr. Inayat Bernard was the editor of the Catholic Naqib....

, Pakistan's largest Catholic newspaper before leaving to study at the Southeast Asia Interdisciplinary Development Institute in Manila, Philippines. After serving in Lahore's Mariamabad

National Marian Shrine, Mariamabad

The National Marian Shrine in Mariamabad, Pakistan is a National Shrine and the site of an annual pilgrimage for the September 8 feast of the birth of Mary. This event has been taking place since 1949. Mariamabad means city of Mary in the Urdu language....

 and cathedral

Sacred Heart Cathedral

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 parishes, he was appointed rector of the diocese's St. Mary's Minor Seminary, Lahore

St. Mary's Minor Seminary, Lahore

St. Mary's Minor Seminary, Lahore, is the preparatory seminary in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lahore. It is the first minor seminary in the country, started by Belgian Capuchin Bishop Marcel Roger Buyse of Lahore in 1951. St. Mary's is now serving Lahore, Multan and Rawalpindi dioceses, as...

 in 1988. Father Bernard is also secretary of the Pakistan Catholic Press Association.

In July 1993, Father Bernard was appointed rector of the Christ the King Seminary (Pakistan)

Christ the King Seminary (Pakistan)

Christ the King Seminary is a Roman Catholic seminary in Karachi. It is located adjacent to the Portiuncula Friary. In its early years most of the faculty were provided by the Franciscans....

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He is also Co-editor, along with Mgr Shaheen Mathew and Father Bonnie Mendes

Bonnie Mendes

Bonnie Mendes is a Catholic priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Faisalabad in Pakistan. He was ordained a priest in 1962. He has a doctorate in social sciences from the Philippines.The National Commission for Justice and Peace was founded in 1985. Fr...

, of a new publication AMAL (Action) published by the Youth Association for Leadership and Development.

He is also a member of the National Commission for Inter-religious Dialogue and Ecumenism (NCIDE) who organised the lighting of a peace candle and planting of a tree symbolising peace between India and Pakistan.

He is the author of an Urdu-language book “Christianity in Punjab” in which he re-discovers the birth, formation and expansion of Christianity (1886 onwards) in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is a historical account and voices hope for the future of the local church from the perspective of laity.

On December 17, 2009 at a celebration of 40 years of Caritas Pakistan

Caritas Pakistan

Caritas Pakistan opened in 1965 and has many years of humanitarian assistance in Pakistan. It is affiliated with Caritas Internationalis, a Roman Catholic humanitarian organisation and one of the largest networks dedicated to reducing poverty and injustice in the world. -Asian Tsunami:The...

 functioning in Lahore diocese the Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha

Lawrence Saldanha

Lawrence John Saldanha was born in Mangalore, India on 25 October 1936. He received his religious training at the Christ the King seminary in Karachi and was ordained a priest in Lahore, Pakistan on 16 January 1960....

appointed Fr Bernard as Diocesan Executive Secretary of Caritas.