Posted on 07/29/2013 12:19:11 PM PDT by HokieMom
Capital city of nearby country becomes haven for converts—even though denied refugee status.
The New York Times sheds fresh light on the challenges faced by Afghan Christians seeking religious freedom, spotlighting the growth of a refugee church in India's capital city, New Delhi.
As the Times observes in a report worth reading, more than 200 Christian converts from Muslim backgrounds have fled to New Delhi, seeking refuge from the Taliban and from political backlash after television coverage resulted in one Afghan politician's urging the government to execute converts in 2010. As CT noted in July 2010, the Afghan government also suspended operations of two Christian NGOs after an Afghan TV station broadcast coverage of baptisms by Western aid workers.
Though members of the Afghan Church of New Delhi say they feel safer in India, their lives are complicated by their lack of legal recognition as refugees.
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Our boy wants to give weapons to Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood so they can kill Christians in Syria.
Juan McCain and Grahamnesty agree,
Insanity.
...more than 200 Christian converts from Muslim backgrounds have fled to New Delhi... after television coverage resulted in one Afghan politician's urging the government to execute converts in 2010... the Afghan government also suspended operations of two Christian NGOs after an Afghan TV station broadcast coverage of baptisms by Western aid workers. Though members of the Afghan Church of New Delhi say they feel safer in India, their lives are complicated by their lack of legal recognition as refugees.
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