Source: Missions Network News, June 5, 2017<\/p>\n
Some of the most dangerous regulations [believers in Algeria face] are the strict blasphemy laws. \u201cThe blasphemy laws are used often against people who are expressing their views and religious beliefs on social media,\u201d says [Miles Windsor of Middle East Concern<\/a>].<\/p>\n That\u2019s how Slimane Bouhafs ended up with a five-year prison sentence.<\/p>\n Bouhafs, a 50-year-old Christian who was formerly Muslim, was convicted of blasphemy on September 6, 2016. According to Windsor, \u201cHe was accused of insulting the prophet Mohammed\u201d when he proclaimed his faith on Facebook. Since September, his sentence has been slightly reduced, but Windsor says the government has stubbornly resisted or ignored many of Bouhafs\u2019s appeals.<\/p>\n \u201cWe can lobby human authorities, but the most powerful authority that we can turn to is the Lord,\u201d says Windsor.<\/p>\n \u00bb Read full story<\/a>, as well as more about Slimane Bouhafs<\/a> and his experiences (Open Doors).<\/p>\n \u00bb Morning Star News just published a new report about developments regarding blasphemy laws in Pakistan<\/a>. Evidently the government-run Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) began sending text messages to all mobile phone users warning that \u201cuploading & sharing of blasphemous content on Internet is a punishable offence under the law\u201d and providing a government email address for reporting such content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Missions Network News, June 5, 2017 Some of the most dangerous regulations [believers in Algeria face] are the strict blasphemy laws. \u201cThe blasphemy laws are used often against people who are expressing their views and religious beliefs on social media,\u201d says [Miles Windsor of Middle East Concern]. That\u2019s how Slimane Bouhafs ended up with … Continue reading ALGERIA: Believer Facing Blasphemy Charges<\/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-7215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215","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=7215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7216,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215\/revisions\/7216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}