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Ninety-five percent of Punjabi Christians are converts to Christianity from Hinduism, accepting their new faith during the British Raj in colonial India. [6] By 1870, there were only a few thousand Christians in the Punjab Province of colonial India; the 1880s saw the growth of the Presbyterian Church from 660 to 10,615 baptized Christians. [20]
Prince was born in Singapore, the son of a Sikh priest of Indian origin and a Chinese mother. [3] He converted to Christianity at age 12. Prince studied at Commonwealth Secondary School and completed his A levels at a private school, Our Lady of Lourdes.
The proportion of Christians among Singaporeans has increased in the last few decades: 9.9% in 1980; 12.7% in 1990; 14.6% in 2000 and 18.9% in 2020. [8] [9] Christianity has flourished in present-day Singapore, and a growing number of Singaporeans are converting to the faith or were born into Christian families. [10] [11] [12]
The Singapore government has since adopted a policy of promoting religious tolerance in Singapore. [ citation needed ] However, some religions or denominations are officially banned by the government, as they are deemed as cults , such as Jehovah's Witnesses and the Unification Church , although their followers practised in secrecy in the 2010s.
A court in Pakistan sentenced a Christian man to death for sharing what it said was hateful content against Muslims on social media after one of the worst mob attacks on Christians in the eastern ...
New Creation Church (abbreviation: NCC) is a non-denominational Charismatic Christian megachurch in Singapore. Founded in 1984, it holds church services at The Star Performing Arts Centre. [1] It is a member of the National Council of Churches of Singapore (NCCS).
There have been a number of high-profile cases of Christians being accused of blasphemy. In 2013, a suicide bombing at a church in Peshawar killed 82 people. [7] In 2015, a mob attacked a Christian couple in Punjab, burning them alive. In 2014, a Christian couple was burned alive in a brick kiln after being accused of desecrating the Quran. [8]
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani authorities on Monday handed out thousands of dollars to nearly 100 Christian families whose homes were destroyed or damaged by a Muslim mob angered over an ...