Saturday, August 22, 2009

Honor killing feared for Christian convert


Fathima Rifqa Bary, taken from interview

Fathima Rifqa Bary ran away from home a few weeks ago, fleeing her Muslim family under the possible threat of Honor Killing, a punishment for her covert conversion to evangelical Christianity four years prior. Two days later she arrived at the home of Blake and Beverly Lorenz, pastors of the Orlando based Global Revolution Church.

The legal battle for her parents to retrieve their daughter has been very active, with Rifqa being supported by the Alliance Defense Fund, known for its stringent defense of Christians and Christian rights. Today Rifqa was granted a small reprieve, as Judge Daniel P. Dawson ordered a halt to proceedings for two.

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