{"id":3909,"date":"2013-09-18T09:07:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T15:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=3909"},"modified":"2013-09-18T09:07:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T15:07:24","slug":"afghanistan-authorities-call-for-death-of-christian-converts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=3909","title":{"rendered":"AFGHANISTAN: Authorities Call for Death of Christian Converts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/mnnonline.org\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Mission Network News<\/a>, September 16, 2013<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mohabatnews.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=7458:afghani-mp-execute-afghan-christian-converts&amp;catid=81:regions&amp;Itemid=278\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">a report originally published by Mohabat News<\/a>, Afghanistan&#8217;s leaders are calling for the death of Christian converts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Numerous Afghans have become Christians in India. This is an offense to Islamic Laws and, according to the Quran, they need to be executed,&#8221; stated the Afghanistan Member of Parliament, Nazir Ahmad Hanafi, in a published report.<\/p>\n<p>The number of people coming to Christ from Muslim backgrounds is reportedly increasing. Most Muslim-background believers have fled to India for safety; a growing church established in Delhi reportedly has around 250 members.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan&#8217;s Parliament has addressed this issue on separate occasions over the past few months. One MP, Abdul Latif Pedram, said that &#8220;conversions to Christianity are the result of the presence of the United States in Afghanistan.&#8221; He feels the conversion of Afghans in India is part of the US&#8217;s longer-term plan to alter the country&#8217;s culture and religion.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/mnnonline.org\/article\/18978\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb See also <a href=\"http:\/\/mattersindia.com\/afghan-church-grows-in-delhi\/\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Afghan Church Grows in Delhi<\/a> (Matters India).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Mission Network News, September 16, 2013 According to a report originally published by Mohabat News, Afghanistan&#8217;s leaders are calling for the death of Christian converts. &#8220;Numerous Afghans have become Christians in India. This is an offense to Islamic Laws and, according to the Quran, they need to be executed,&#8221; stated the Afghanistan Member of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=3909\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AFGHANISTAN: Authorities Call for Death of Christian Converts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-3909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909","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=3909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3910,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions\/3910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}