It’s the same story the world over: so many Muslims, like Leftists, are desperately insecure and fearful of any kind of challenge. Thus they move to crush free speech regarding Islam as well as proselytizing for any other religion. Indeed, proselytizing for any other religion among Muslims is a Sharia offense.
“Kyrgyz police fine Catholic nun for alleged evangelization,” UCA News, March 29, 2023:
Police and security officials at Talas town in northwestern Kyrgyzstan entered a Catholic Church during Sunday mass and fined a Slovakian missionary nun for allegedly violating the country’s law by evangelizing among local residents without permission.
The officials visited St. Nicholas Church in Talas on March 26 and imposed a fine on Sister Daniela Činčilova from the School Sisters of St. Francis Congregation, Fides news agency reported on March 28.
The nun was accused of violating Article 142 of the Criminal Code of the Muslim-majority nation which deals with religious freedom and religious organizations.
The investigators reportedly said Sister Činčilova committed an offense by spreading Roman Catholicism among the residents of Talas without the authorization of the State Commission for Religious Affairs.
A Church official says the action resulted from “ignorance and misunderstanding.”
“The decision to fine Sister Daniela was certainly taken out of ignorance on the part of the local personnel involved in the operation since the nun did not violate the regulations in force in Kirghizstan,” Jesuit brother Damian Wojciechowski, director of the curia of the Apostolic Administration of Kyrgyzstan.
The tiny Catholic Church in the country with several thousand members operates as a sui juris (independent) mission directly under the Vatican.
Wojciechowski said the nun was reading from Bible, but neither preaching nor officiating the liturgy, two actions foreign citizens can only perform after obtaining a special certificate from the government.
“We have already taken steps to lodge an appeal in court and we are confident that the fine can be canceled since we have always acted in accordance with the country’s existing laws,” he said.
A central Asian nation and a former Soviet republic, about 90 percent of Kyrgyzstan’s estimated 6.8 population is Muslim, seven percent Christian and about three percent do not follow any religion, according to official data….
somehistory says
Fear of hearing about Christ. mozlums and others just can’t stand the thought.
Just as the Bible says, it’s a ‘foul odor” to those who don’t have faith.
PRCS says
Fear of hearing about Christ?
No, Muslims claim to believe he is a prophet of God.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Well Christ is different from their ‘Issa’, who is a very different and weird character
CJ says
They fear the message of Christ. They deny his divinity and that he even died on the cross. Islam utterly rejects the message of Jesus. To them He is merely a prophet, one of many, and of a lower status than Mohammed, their”perfect” example.
Linde B. says
I thank God for this brave nun. 🙏+ ❤️
James Lincoln says
Me too, Linde B.
Let’s keep her in our prayers.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
In the -stans, their faith is directly connected to their ethnicity. Most ethnic Kyrgyz and other Turks are muslim and most ethnic Russians are Russian Orthodox. The people who practice Catholicism are the people of German ethnicity who were sent there during Soviet times
I used to think that Uzbekistan was the country the most likely to islamize the fastest, given that two major centers of islam in the medieval era – Samarqand and Buqhara – are in that country, but they’ve actually done an admirable job of containing it. Otoh, most of the jihadist activity from that region has been from Kyrgyzstan. The Tsarnaev brothers, though ethnically Chechen, were Kyrgyz citizens, so was an attack in Moscow just before the soccer world cup of 2018. If Kyrgyzstan wants to be more islamic, maybe they could take in the Uyghurs and give them refuge, defying China