Source: Morning Star News, January 16, 2014
As Barry Barnett’s plane lifted off from Tel Aviv, Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport last month, he sat torn with emotion. Over the prior two weeks the British citizen had been harassed, arrested, interrogated, locked in jail, and deported from a country that he had loved deeply since childhood.
Still, he was filled with an unquenchable desire to continue doing that for which Israel had deported him – proclaiming Christ to his fellow Jews.
If the deportation order stands, not only may Barnett never set foot in Israel again but, more importantly, it could set a legal precedent to limit missionary work or other forms of religious expression by foreign visitors.
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