Daniel_Cheung
02-18-2009, 12:09 AM
Missionaries' imprisonment shows the security risks of support e-mails
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/march/8.14.html
Longtime missionaries David and Fiona Fulton were sentenced by a Gambian court to a year of hard labor last December after pleading guilty -- in hopes of a lenient sentence -- to sedition charges stemming from a wry comment e-mailed to a prayer list.
After nearly a decade of service in the West African Muslim nation, the Fultons, missionaries from an Assemblies of God church in Britain, experienced a string of difficulties, including a disagreement that led them to part with their local church. At about the same time, David reduced his role as an army chaplain and was assaulted by a man he described as a Muslim fundamentalist....
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/march/8.14.html
Longtime missionaries David and Fiona Fulton were sentenced by a Gambian court to a year of hard labor last December after pleading guilty -- in hopes of a lenient sentence -- to sedition charges stemming from a wry comment e-mailed to a prayer list.
After nearly a decade of service in the West African Muslim nation, the Fultons, missionaries from an Assemblies of God church in Britain, experienced a string of difficulties, including a disagreement that led them to part with their local church. At about the same time, David reduced his role as an army chaplain and was assaulted by a man he described as a Muslim fundamentalist....