Source: Barnabas Fund, March 22, 2018
A Christian woman accused of “illegal missionary activity” for demonstrating how to download a Bible smartphone app was acquitted by a regional court in Shymkent, south Kazakhstan, on March 13, 2018.
Sultanova Dilobarkhon met a woman in church in December 2017 who later asked her to rendezvous near a local café so she could show her how to download a Bible app onto her phone. Minutes after Sultanova showed the woman how to download the Bible, she was arrested by police in what appeared to be a deliberate set up.
The court noted that the Bible “is not banned literature in the Republic of Kazakhstan” and found that Sultanova was not guilty of “illegal missionary activity,” as the church attendance of the woman who asked for her assistance to download the Bible had been documented.
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