{"id":8224,"date":"2010-11-22T00:26:40","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T05:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=8224"},"modified":"2010-11-22T00:42:12","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T05:42:12","slug":"christian-faces-trial-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/22\/christian-faces-trial-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Faces Trial in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charisma <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charismamag.com\/index.php\/news\/29558-christian-jailed-in-afghanistan-to-face-judge-on-sunday\">magazine reports<\/a> Afghan Christian Said Musa was to face a judge this past Sunday, though he had yet to be told what charges he faced after six months in jail.\u00a0 He was imprisoned in May, after a local Afghan station broadcast pictures of Afghan Christians being baptized.<\/p>\n<p>The article notes that Musa has been a Christian for 8 years, and it is a capital crime in Afghanistan to leave Islam.<\/p>\n<p>Government officials reportedly called for the execution of the filmed Christians in June.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, this is the same Afghan nation <!--more-->and government that members of the US military, defenders of freedom around the world, are currently supporting with their very lives.<\/p>\n<p>As previously noted, women&#8217;s rights have received far <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/11\/womens-rights-and-religious-freedom-in-afghanistan\/\">more attention than religious freedom<\/a> in Afghanistan.\u00a0 According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/g\/drl\/rls\/irf\/2010\/148786.htm\">just-released International Religious Freedom Report for 2010<\/a>, the US government&#8217;s response thus far to Afghanistan&#8217;s\u00a0treatment of\u00a0religious freedom\u00a0has been:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. government discusses religious freedom with government officials as part of its overall policy to promote human rights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charisma magazine reports Afghan Christian Said Musa was to face a judge this past Sunday, though he had yet to be told what charges he faced after six months in jail.\u00a0 He was imprisoned in May, after a local Afghan station broadcast pictures of Afghan Christians being baptized. The article notes that Musa has been a Christian for 8 years, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[58,1175,4,44,2,1174],"class_list":["post-8224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-afghanistan","tag-charisma","tag-churchandstate","tag-islam","tag-military","tag-said-musa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}