{"id":35557,"date":"2013-05-14T08:24:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T15:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=35557"},"modified":"2013-05-14T08:24:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T15:24:47","slug":"irish-times-saudi-arabia-to-punish-men-for-converting-woman-to-christianity-reports-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/05\/14\/irish-times-saudi-arabia-to-punish-men-for-converting-woman-to-christianity-reports-newspaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Times: Saudi Arabia to punish men for converting woman to Christianity, reports newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced two men to lashes and prison terms for converting a woman to Christianity and helping her flee the conservative Islamic kingdom, the Saudi Gazette reported yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>A Lebanese man was sentenced to six years in prison and 300 lashes for converting the woman, while a Saudi man was sentenced to two years and 200 lashes for aiding her escape abroad, the English-language daily said.<\/p>\n<p>It added that the pair had challenged the verdict and would appeal.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman at the justice ministry could not immediately be reached for comment.<\/p>\n<p>In Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, it is against the law for Muslims to abandon their faith, a practice known as apostasy.<\/p>\n<p>Proselytising for other religions or practising them openly is also illegal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/world\/asia-pacific\/saudi-arabia-to-punish-men-for-converting-woman-to-christianity-reports-newspaper-1.1392190\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced two men to lashes and prison terms for converting a woman to Christianity and helping her flee the conservative Islamic kingdom, the Saudi Gazette reported yesterday. A Lebanese man was sentenced to six years in prison and 300 lashes for converting the woman, while a Saudi man was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35558,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35557\/revisions\/35558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}