A brother, Hector Aleem, of Pakistan has been arrested for sending a ‘blasphemy’ text message. Court documents in his case say that the source phone from which the supposed message came was not even registered to Mr. Aleem. This is an effort to persecute a man who stands up for Christians in Pakistan. This is happening in the Middle and Far East far more than we realize.
A poster to this news article, aritonang, said:
The Muslims always try to draw comments about their god and their dead leader muhammad. Just yesterday a stranger from Egypt and another from Pakistan send messages to my email coercing me to open links to Muslim website.
I have stated twice that I am a Christian from a Christian family but they still send those messages. Maybe they are expecting harsh comment about their god and muhammad, and thus blasphemy in their standard.
It would be very dangerous for me to comment on those thread and I just deleted those messages without replying.
Instances like these are the ones that create problem with us Christians who lives in Muslim majority nations.
Please pray for our brothers & sisters in Christ who are persecuted for their faith. I just ask God to protect, provide for, and encourage them.
To read the article, click here, from the Christian Post.
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Wiley-Blackwell, a major academic publisher, is recalling copies of Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization and scrapping the print run after critics said the entries were “too Christian” and “too anti-Muslim.”
The publisher was set to release the four-volume encyclopedia this month after it was completed last September.
But a small group of critics that included contributors and some members of the editorial board objected to the final version.
“They determined that the Introduction and many of the entries were ‘too Christian, too orthodox, too anti-secular and too anti-Muslim and not politically correct enough for being used in universities,” said the encyclopedia’s editor, George Thomas Kurian, sounding angry in an e-mail sent last week to nearly 400 contributors.
Now, the book’s publisher and editorial director want to “de-christianize” all 1,450 entries in the encyclopedia to make it politically correct before it can be reprinted, according to Kurian.
He also claimed the press is looking to delete words including, “Antichrist,” “Enemy,” “Beloved Disciple,” “Gates of Hell,” “Witness,” “Virgin Birth,” “Resurrection,” “Evangelism” and any reference with an “evangelical tone.” BC and AD, chronological markers for “Before Christ” and “Anno Domini,” will also likely to dropped.
Read the article here: Publisher Recalls Encyclopedia for Being ‘Too Christian’| Christianpost.com.
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