While most of the Western World turns a blind eye to blasphemy, Russia has just enacted a tough law that imposes heavy fines or even a prison term. The law applies to “public acts that manifest patent disrespect for society and are committed with the aim of offence to the religious feelings of believers”. The Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Prison’
Corrections Minister impressed by prison programme
Friday, November 16th, 2012
Programmes such as allowing inmates to spend the day with their children have impressed Corrections Minister Anne Tolley. Mrs Tolley visited the Serco-managed Doncaster Prison in England last week. Serco will manage nearly a quarter of New Zealand’s prison population by 2015 when it takes over a new 960-bed facility in Wiri. It began a six-year Read more
Persecution of Christians rises in Asia
Tuesday, November 6th, 2012Persecution of Christians belonging to evangelical denominations in Asia has increased by three or four times in the last 10 years, according to the Gospel for Asia ministry. Its president says people who have not experienced persecution firsthand “cannot fully understand what it means to receive threats against your life, to have your house destroyed, Read more
Rimutaka Prison’s Faith Based Unit to close soon
Friday, November 2nd, 2012
A new agreement between Prison Fellowship New Zealand and Corrections will mean the Rimutaka Prisons’ Faith Based Unit (FBU) will close, making way for new reintegration activities which will reach prisoners at more sites. Prison Fellowship New Zealand has run the Christian-based rehabilitation programme at Rimutaka Prison’s FBU since October 2003. Gregory Fortuin, Executive Chairman of PFNZ, Read more
Christian convert in Iran gets six years in prison
Tuesday, August 14th, 2012Iran’s court of appeals has upheld a six-year prison term imposed on a man who converted to Christianity from Islam and organised a house church. The Christian convert, Farshid Fat’hi, had been charged with “acting against national security through membership of the Christian organization Ilam, collection of funds and propaganda against the Islamic Regime by Read more
Monsignor Lynn jailed for obeying his bishop
Friday, July 27th, 2012
Monsignor William Lynn “chose wrong” by obeying his bishop, said the judge who sentenced him to prison for three to six years for his handling of an abusive priest. Monsignor Lynn, the archdiocese of Philadelphia’s secretary for clergy from 1992 to 2004, was found guilty of endangering a child. The charge stemmed from his handling Read more
Pope’s chocolate Easter eggs heads to prison
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012During the pope’s Wednesday general audience in St. Peter’s Square, a chocolate company in Northern Italy gave him a 551-pound chocolate egg. The massive, beautiful egg is hand-decorated and reaches more than seven feet high. The detailed egg not only includes various designs and small pink flowers, but also features the papal coat of arms.
The pope decided to donate the egg to the children living at a Rome detention center, Casal del Marmo Prison for Minors.
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Friday, December 23rd, 2011
Visiting inmates at Rebibbia prison, one of Italy’s toughest prisons, on Monday, Pope Benedict told the inmates people are awful to him too. “People speak ferociously even against the Pope, but nonetheless we have to move on,” the pontiff said. Despite the surroundings and a hectic Christmas schedule, Pope Benedict looked to be in good Read more
Time to face uncomfortable truths about our offenders
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
Jail is for them, not us, is a white middle class understanding that’s well-illustrated by the case of Rick Bryant, the ageing rocker currently appealing against his jail sentence for drug dealing. I follow his case with interest. Nobody who was at university at the same time as Rick could forget him, in part because Read more
Grieving family hopes for murderer’s rehabilitation
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
The daughter of murdered Wellington man Donald Stewart hopes his teenage killer will be rehabilitated in prison. Connor Rewha Te Wara, 15, pleaded guilty to murdering Mr Stewart, 74, on June 27 last year. Te Wara was just 14-year-old when he and his associates – Ben Purua, then 15, and William Frederick Izett, then 17, Read more