Source: Morning Star News, January 20, 2015<\/p>\n
[On January 19] a court in Bhutan reduced a sentence of nearly four years in prison to 28 months for pastor Tandin Wangyal, resulting in the father of three remaining free to attend to his family and ministry.<\/p>\n
More than 10 months after Pastor Wangyal was arrested for holding a public gathering in Samtse District, he was granted bail of US$1,523 for a sentence reduced from three years, 11 months to two years and four months (and 11 days) in what sources said was a move by the judiciary to dispose of a conviction for which it had no evidence.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has been a miracle verdict for me,\u201d a joyous Pastor Wangyal told Morning Star News by phone minutes after the verdict in Dorokha. \u201cI was rather surprised that the court had reduced my sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n
As he waited for a final verdict from the Samtse District Court, he spent three days of prayer and fasting on a mountain top with five friends, a friend wrote in an email.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said God prepared him for receiving his appeal\u2019s verdict on January 19,\u201d the friend said.<\/p>\n
\u00bb Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00bb See another story of captives released: CAR Cleric and French Aid Worker Released<\/a> (World Watch Monitor).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Morning Star News, January 20, 2015 [On January 19] a court in Bhutan reduced a sentence of nearly four years in prison to 28 months for pastor Tandin Wangyal, resulting in the father of three remaining free to attend to his family and ministry. More than 10 months after Pastor Wangyal was arrested for … Continue reading BHUTAN: Imprisoned Pastor Released Early<\/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-5362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362","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=5362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5363,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions\/5363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}