Tag Archives: Country: Bhutan

Christian Today: “International Christian Concern (ICC) reported that Prem Singh Gurung has been sentenced to three years imprisonment for showing the film. He has been jailed in the town of Gelephu.”

Compass Direct: “For the first time in Bhutan’s history, the Buddhist nation’s government seems ready to grant much-awaited official recognition and accompanying rights to a miniscule Christian population that has remained largely underground.”

Christian Today: “A court in predominantly Buddhist Bhutan has sentenced a Christian to three years in prison for ‘attempting to promote civil unrest’ by screening films on Christianity.”

Christian Post: “Christians in this Himalayan nation who are still longing to openly practice their faith were disheartened this month when the government proposed the kind of ‘anti-conversion’ law that other nations have used as a pretext for falsely accusing Christians of ‘coercion.’ The amendment bill would punish ‘proselytizing’ that ‘uses coercion or other forms of inducement’ – vaguely enough worded, Christians fear, that vigilantes could use it to jail them for following the commands of Christ to feed, clothe and otherwise care for the poor.”