Saturday, 06 Feb 2021 05:41 PM MYT
BY KEERTAN AYAMANY
A candlelight vigil for missing Pastor Raymond Koh is held outside the Selangor police headquarters in Shah Alam, March 5, 2017. Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
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KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 6 Christian Federation of Malaysia chairman Archbishop Julian Leow Beng Kim today called on all churches in Malaysia to pray for pastor Raymond Koh for the next two weekends to mark the 4
th anniversary of the mysterious abduction of Pastor Raymond Koh.
Koh was abducted on Feb 13, 2017, in what has been deemed an enforced disappearance.
Expat Malaysians have not ‘abandoned’ Malaysia, but are realising their ambitions
Last month, many articles were published about Malaysian expats who had excelled in their particular fields.
Penang teenager, Celine Chung, wanted to play football and is now training with the U-17 Bayern Munich Women’s team. Alor Star’s Jocelyn Yow has become the youngest mayor of a small town in California, and 60-year-old Sam Lim, formerly of Muar, has won an award for the best policeman of the year, in Western Australia.
The nationalist cybertroopers were out in full force. One said, “Good riddance. Hope more pendatangs leave.”
PETALING JAYA: A retired high-ranking police officer threatened to walk out of a Malaysian Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) inquiry into the disappearance of Joshua Hilmy and Ruth Sitepu on Wednesday (Jan 6).
Comm (Rt) Datuk Awaludin Jadid, the former principal assistant director of Special Branch s Social Extremism Division (E2), was agitated when he was questioned about a speech that he had made about extremism in November 2016.
“Why are we referring to an old ceramah in 2016? I don’t understand why. What is the reason. I have already given the same answer. Why don’t you just refer to the transcript or notes of proceedings on that, ” he said on Wednesday (Jan 6) in response to questions by Bar Council observer Lim Heng Seng.
Religious freedom takes a dive across Asia
World s largest democracy joins communist and Muslim-majority nations as the region s worst offenders
Indian Dalit Christians hold a 2012 protest in New Delhi for equal rights. India has joined a list of worst offenders for religious persecution in a report by a US government agency. (Photo: AFP)
It was all bad news for Asian nations in the annual United States Commission on International Religious Freedom report, with four more countries India, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia sliding down into the two lowest, most persecuting categories, joining Myanmar, China and North Korea.
The report certainly backs up the consistent themes of increasing persecution across the region that have been covered by journalists for UCA News and its sister publication, La Croix International.
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