Story highlights Ruth Pfau worked for decades to eradicate leprosy in PakistanPakistan's national flag will fly at half-staff in her honorIslamabad, Pakistan (CNN) A German nun known as "Pakistan's Mother Teresa" is to be buried Saturday in a state funeral in the port city of Karachi -- a first for a Christian woman in the predominantly Muslim country. Ruth Katherina Martha Pfau died August 10 after dedicating more than half a century to working to eradicate leprosy, tuberculosis and other diseases in Pakistan. "She is the first person in Pakistan's history of the Christian faith to have a state funeral," said Cecil S. Chaudhry, executive director of the National Commission for Justice and Peace. Ruth Pfau visits the flood-affected Begna village in southern Pakistan's Jati town in 2010. 21-gun saluteRead More

Source: CNN August 19, 2017 03:11 UTC