Still faces three years in prison
Christians who refuse to compromise their faith in America sometimes find themselves sued or deprived opportunities for advancement within their organizations for refusing to endorse unbiblical practices. Sometimes they get fired.
In India, they can be imprisoned for defending religious freedom.
A Christian professor is facing three years in prison for “engaging in deliberate acts intended to outrage the majority of the population’s religious sentiments,” according to religious-freedom group ADF International.
The Indian Supreme Court recently spared Amit Kumar Soren of the Christian college St. Columba from being imprisoned as the trial continues, providing “some solace in the run-up to Easter, the most important time of the year for India’s ill-treated Christian minority,” ADF International said.
ADF India Director Tehmina Arora said Soren was “falsely accused of inciting hate” because he organized a “public gathering” and stood for “religious freedom in India,” which is officially protected by the Constitution but functionally ignored by local authorities.
Soren’s state leaders in Jharkhand introduced a “religious freedom bill” last summer that is actually a “far-reaching anti-conversion law” that requires converts to rat out the person who led them to faith, according to ADF International: “Perpetrators face fines of up to 100,000 Rupee and four years of imprisonment.”
The law functionally bans Easter baptisms, according to the group.
Soren’s case appears to have received no attention from any news source indexed by Google.
Read the ADF International release.
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