Pakistani Christian gets life for blasphemy despite learning difficulties
World Watch Monitor Mentally impaired Yaqoob Bashir Masih was only 20 years old when he was accused of committing blasphemy in June, 2015. He has been in prison ever since, and now his hometown District and Sessions Court in Mirpur Khas, a small district in Pakistan’s Sindh province, has sentenced him to life-long imprisonment for […]
LIFESTORY: THE SOUTH SUDANESE SURGEON WHO RECITES SCRIPTURE TO PATIENTS
South Sudanese surgeon Dr Evan Atar Adeha was recently named as the winner of the UNHCR’s 2018 Nansen Award. FREDRICK NZWILI, of Religion News Service, reports…
Four-year sentence for Indonesian pastor who evangelised a taxi driver
World Watch Monitor A Protestant pastor has been sentenced to four years in prison for religious defamation after discussing Christianity with a Muslim taxi driver in Indonesia, the Jakarta Post reports. The Tangerang District Court in Banten also ordered Rev Abraham Ben Moses, 52, pay a fine of 50 million rupiah ($US3,565) or spend one additional month […]
Pakistan court acquits 20 in case of Christian couple burnt alive
World Watch Monitor An Anti-Terrorism Court in Lahore, Pakistan, on Saturday acquitted 20 men suspected of involvement in the murder of a Christian couple burnt alive at the kiln where they worked in November, 2014, after it was alleged that they had set fire to some pages from a Quran. Previously, in April, 2016, the ATC allowed […]