Malaysian police have recommended that the editor of the nation’s Catholic newspaper be charged with ѕєdιтισn, according to a Malaysian Insider report.

Selangor, one of the nation’s 13 states, is governed by a sultan who has decreed that non-Muslims may not use the term “Allah” to address God. Christians in Malaysia have been using the term since the seventeenth century, and Father Lawrence Andrew, the editor, said that Catholic parishes in Selangor would continue to use the term.

The police investigation of Father Andrew follows the Selangor government’s seizure of over 300 Bibles in which “Allah” is used as a translation for God.

Father Augustine Julian, a former secretary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Malaysia, told the Fides news agency that “the situation is quite serious. There is great concern in the Catholic Church, because the story has taken a turn for the worse.”

“The investigation of the judiciary in course is a subtle form of pressure towards all Christians,” he added. “There is strong concern in the community and tension with radical Islamic groups.”

The Southeast Asian nation of 29.6 million is 60% Muslim, 19% Buddhist, 6% Hindu, 6% Protestant, and 3% Catholic. Islam is Malaysia’s official religion.


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Until there are no nations with Islam as their national religion, there will not be religious tolerance.

The apostolic administrator of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s capital, has urged the nation’s Catholics to be courageous in the face of increasing opposition.

Malaysian police have recommended that the editor of the nation’s Catholic newspaper be charged with ѕєdιтισn. Selangor, one of the nation’s 13 states, is governed by a sultan who has decreed that non-Muslims may not use the term “Allah” to address God. Christians in Malaysia have been using the term since the seventeenth century, and Father Lawrence Andrew, the editor, said that Catholic parishes in Selangor would continue to use the term.

“I am deeply saddened and aggrieved by recent events involving the use of offensive words and the burning of an effigy of Father Lawrence Andrew, which is tantamount to an attack against the Christian community,” said Archbishop Murphy Pakiam in a January 18 pastoral letter.

“It is deplorable that certain groups also wish to organize mega demonstrations and road shows,” he continued. “These insensible actions by groups of persons have caused a great deal of unease, anxiety and even anger among Malaysian citizens. Furthermore, the endorsement of such actions by certain political leaders and the unexplained silence of others only add fuel to a fire that seems to be spreading uncontrollably.”

“I call upon the Catholic faithful to be strong through these adversities and continue to profess our faith with courage and determination,” he added.

The Southeast Asian nation of 29.6 million is 60% Muslim, 19% Buddhist, 6% Hindu, 6% Protestant, and 3% Catholic. Islam is Malaysia’s official religion.

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The truly sad and tragic component of all this suffering of Christians in Muslim countries is that, aside from the violent and deadly persecution from the Muslims, they only have the novus ordo mass and novus ordo presides.  

Think of the emotional anguish when, after hearing of another dozen or so Christians being beheaded, the Catholics in these areas have to then tolerate a homily in which the presider talks about how all religions "point" to Heaven and then he probably mumbles something about taking up a second collection to help fund the construction of a new mosque.