{"id":20433,"date":"2021-12-03T14:58:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T22:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=20433"},"modified":"2021-12-03T14:10:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T22:10:58","slug":"christianity-on-trial-in-finland-as-bible-is-deemed-hate-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/christianity-on-trial-in-finland-as-bible-is-deemed-hate-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Christianity on trial in Finland as Bible is deemed \u2018hate speech\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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World Net Daily<\/a> – December 3, 2021<\/p>\n

Religious liberties in danger.<\/p>\n

Religious liberties are in danger in Finland, and Christianity has a giant target on its back.<\/p>\n

In a court case with monumental implications, a pastor and a member of the Finnish Parliament are on trial for their faith. Juhana Pohjola, 49, faces criminal charges for teaching the Christian word that has been established for thousands of years.<\/p>\n

Pohjola has ministered to small delegations of only dozens and has worked a lifetime building a tight-knit network of churches across Finland. Many of the humble churches started as a handful of people gathering for Bible study, singing hymns, prayer, and communion.<\/p>\n

Many of the humble churches started as a handful of people gathering for Bible study, singing hymns, prayer, and communion.<\/p>\n

But Pohjola\u2019s life work faces a harrowing test of persecution when he and Finnish MP P\u00e4ivi R\u00e4s\u00e4nen go to trial on January 24th.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the accusation against Pohjola and R\u00e4s\u00e4nen?<\/p>\n

Hate speech!<\/p>\n

The Federalist<\/strong>\u00a0wrote:<\/p>\n

Rasanen\u2019s alleged crimes in a country that claims to guarantee freedom of speech and religion include tweeting a picture of a Bible verse. Potential penalties if they are convicted include fines and up to two years in prison.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/americanfaith.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

World Net Daily – December 3, 2021 Religious liberties in danger. Religious liberties are in danger in Finland, and Christianity has a giant target on its back. In a court case with monumental implications, a pastor and a member of the Finnish Parliament are on trial for their faith. Juhana Pohjola, 49, faces criminal charges … Continue reading Christianity on trial in Finland as Bible is deemed \u2018hate speech\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[16310,378,16312,16313,241,26,16311],"class_list":["post-20433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-horse","tag-finlandchristianity","tag-hate-speech","tag-juhana-pohjola","tag-paivi-rasanen","tag-persecution","tag-religion","tag-religious-liberties"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-5jz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20435,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20433\/revisions\/20435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}