Chris Guly
Chris Guly is an Ottawa freelance writer and member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery who has contributed to The Daily Telegraph, Newsweek, The Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, The Globe and Mail, the National Post and numerous other publications.
Bio last updated May 16th, 2019.
Articles by Chris Guly
Saving Asia Bibi
By Chris Guly
May 15, 2019
Ottawa writer Christopher Guly retraces the steps that brought the Pakistani mother of five to safe haven in Canada, including Cardus’ own Andrew Bennett’s efforts to raise awareness of her persecution.
In March 2014, just over a year after he became Canada’s first and so far only ambassador for religious freedom, Bennett visited Islamabad and raised Bibi’s case with Pakistani government officials The assassination of Bhatti, who had just visited Canada in February 2011 and met with former Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, served as the “catalyst” for the Harper government’s establishment of the Office of Religious Freedom, according to Bennett, a Ukrainian Catholic deacon who now serves as director of the Cardus Religious Freedom Institute and program director for Cardus Law