Source: Morning Star News, November 28, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A judge in Pakistan has overturned a verdict that denied a Christian\u2019s effort to correct his name and religion on his national identity card as he was a victim of fake conversion to Islam, his attorney said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[On November 16], Ahmad Saeed, additional district judge of Pattoki Tehsil, Kasur District, Punjab Province, overturned the verdict of Pattoki Civil Judge Mian Usman Tariq, who had ruled that 24-year-old Sufyan Masih could not revert to Christianity after \u201cconverting\u201d to Islam, said the Christian\u2019s attorney, Sumera Shafique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Masih had definitively affirmed his Christian faith and had reiterated that declaration in his statement to the district judge, she added. He told the judge that Asif Ali, the brick kiln owner where Masih worked, had registered his name in the NADRA record as Muhammad Sufyan and his religion as Islam in a bid to enslave him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBeing an illiterate person, Masih failed to read the form filled by the data entry operator on the directives of his employer,\u201d Shafique said, noting that Masih had put his thumbprint on the form in ignorance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also learn about a Baptist church in Uzbekistan that has been unable to use its building or meet publicly for worship since 2021<\/a>. Other religious groups in the country are experiencing similar problems (Forum 18.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Morning Star News, November 28, 2024 A judge in Pakistan has overturned a verdict that denied a Christian\u2019s effort to correct his name and religion on his national identity card as he was a victim of fake conversion to Islam, his attorney said. [On November 16], Ahmad Saeed, additional district judge of Pattoki Tehsil, … Continue reading Pakistan: Christian Man a Victim of Fake Conversion to Islam<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13447"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13454,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13447\/revisions\/13454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}