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Tuesday, May 3, 2016

NRD must not interfere, says church group

Association of Churches Sarawak welcomes CM Adenan's announcement that the National Registration Department is withdrawing its court appeal against man who reverted to Christianity from Islam.
Ambrose Linang
PETALING JAYA: The National Registration Department (NRD) should not make it difficult for Muslim converts to revert to their previous religions, the Association of Churches Sarawak (ACS) said today.
Its secretary-general, Ambrose Linang, said the NRD’s initial decision last month to pursue the case against Roneey Rebit, a Bidayuh to the Court of Appeal was unnecessary.
He welcomed Chief Minister Adenan Satem’s announcement today that the NRD is withdrawing its court appeal against Rooney who reverted to Christianity from Islam.
“There really is no need for the NRD to file an appeal in the first place because any such appeal is seen as interfering in the religious freedom of Sarawakians,” Linang told Malay Mail Online.
He said the NRD had refused to process Rooney’s application.
Linang expressed his gratitude to Adenan for his concern in Roneey’s case.
Roneey’s case made headlines earlier this year after the Sarawak High Court made a landmark judgment allowing the 41-year-old to revert to his childhood religion and ordered the NRD to issue him a new MyKad.
The Sarawakian was converted to Islam when he was only eight by his Christian parents who embraced Islam.
About 42% of Sarawak’s population was Christian in 2010.

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