Even though an Indonesian congregation’s construction plan has the support of local residents, the building project is encountering unexpected pushback.
The “blasphemy business group’s” actions are “said to have ensnared more than 400 innocent people, including Christians, in a surge of false blasphemy cases in the last two years,” the news sources say.
In January, Kyrgyzstan’s president signed a new religion law that further represses faith communities by limiting their existence, worship and literature and prohibiting public witnessing.
The girl was lured Jan. 9 from her home in Sialkot in Pakistan’s Punjab province, then forced into a van and taken away, her father told Christian Daily International and Morning Star News.