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Pakistani Catholic Ribqa Masih has testified in court that she was gang raped by three men in September 2005.  This week the judge adjourned the case until the end of the month and granted bail to the lone suspect still in custody.

Pakistani Christian lawyer Khalil Tahir Sandhu speaks about the case.

When ANS asked an update on Catholic Christian Ribqa Masih’s case who was gang raped by some three suspects including Muhammad Kashif, Ghulam Abbas Hussain and an unidentified in September 2005 he said today, May 12 the Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Saluhuddin adjourned the court till May 30.

He told ANS that Ribqa (22) had testified before the court that Ghulam Abbas Hussain and Muhammad Kashif drugged her on September 2nd and took her to Lahore, approximately 100 km from her home in chak (village) 86 J.B.

Khalil Tahir Sandhu said her captors raped and threatened to kill her and her family if she did not convert to Islam.

The Christian victim of gang rape however refused to convert to Islam, Sandhu informed ANS.

Ribqa was yet again raped by another unidentified accused who was supposed to take her home, he said.

The treatment Ribqa has received stands in stark contrast to the widespread publicity and support given to two Muslims who said they had been raped.

Mr Sandhu also alleged that influential Muslims kidnap and rape Christian women and then terrorise them into converting to Islam.

h/t: International Christian Concern

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Hundreds of objections to the Bible have been lodged with Hong Kong’s decency watchdog after a Chinese-language website said the Christian holy book is full of stories containing violence and illicit sex.

The complaints were sparked after the Chinese language website - www.truthbible.net - attempted to put pressure on the Television and Entertainment Licensing Authority [TELA] to classify the Bible as indecent, the South China Morning Post said.

The agency confirmed it had received about 210 complaints about the Bible, compared with about 80 against a university students' newspaper, which ran a series of sex columns the authority decided earlier this week were indecent.

On the website is a form letter which people can send to the authority to complain about the Bible.

TELA has not said whether it will consider the complaints.  Publications with scientific, literary, artistic, or academic content are exempt from obscenity laws.

If the allegations are upheld, sales of the Bible would be restricted to those 18 and over.  Also, it would have to be sold in a sealed package displaying a warning label.

h/t: Religion News Blog

UPDATE (18 May): In a victory for common sense, TELA has stated that it will not reclassify the Bible as indecent.

The Bible "had not violated standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable members of the community", TELA said in a statement.

Those who claim the Bible is obscene would not qualify as "reasonable members of the community".  Ouch!