A court in Nigeria’s Kaduna State has acquitted the Rev. Jonah Gangas and his wife, Josephine, of charges after they were jailed for over three years. The couple, associated with the ECWA Church, faced accusations of kidnapping and proselytizing a young Muslim girl, which they denied, claiming they acted on police request.
More than a month after the Supreme Court of Nepal ordered Pastor Keshab Raj Acharya to serve one year in prison under a law against proselytizing, he seeks to convert the sentence into a fine.
Jehovah s Witnesses are well-known for proselytizing door-to-door and handing out their literature on city streets. Less known to the general public, their adherents have been required for the past century
The Supreme Court in Nepal denied the application of a Nepali pastor and upheld the high court judgement of a one-year prison term and fine, even after there were no witnesses to establish the allegation of proselytization, said the pastor himself.
Trump? well, let me tell you why i think it s so difficult to do that. because as you re talking about this therapy session, as mary was talking earlier about religious complex, it took me back to my 12 years of catholic school where i had to learn how to wear a jacket and ties and shoes that could hold a shine. because that language always stuck with me. so when you think about trump s language in this moment when he says, you know, i was indicted for you, it just reminds and should remind all of us that trump doesn t see himself as a candidate, he sees himself as an evangelist. he s not campaigning. he s proselytizing. and if you look at it through that lens, you realize why it is so difficult to extricate so many folks who joined in on that movement to bring them back to some semblance of reality. he sees himself as a martyr. and quite frankly, if i think the argument that folks are using against what he s doing,