St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, Hyderabad, Pakistan is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hyderabad, 1040 kilometers south of the Capital Islamabad. [1]
Father Francis Kotwani, the first Sindhi to be ordained a Catholic priest, served as assistant parish priest of the cathedral parish. He completed 50 years as a priest in 1994.[2]
Bishop Max John Rodrigues of Hyderabad appealed for people to pray for the country at the end of Mass at the Cathedral. The special service was being offered following a declaration of a state of emergency and a rash of arrests in the country in November 2007.[3]