Father George Ibrahim, a Roman Catholic priest from

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, was killed there on 5 July 2003. He was born in Khushpur,

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on 10 July 1964. He received his religious training at the Christ the King seminary and was ordained a priest on 3 September 1993. Father Ibrahim was shot dead by armed men who broke into his parish of Our Lady of Fatima in Renala Khurd, Okara district, in the

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. His funeral was held on 18 July 2003, and was attended by more than 3,000 people. The service was performed by Bishop Joseph Coutts of Faisalabad. On September 3, 2003, a delegation of Christians has asked the acting governor of Punjab, Chaudhry Afzal Sahi, to replace the police officer investigating the murder of Father George Ibrahim.

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