Suhakam Calls on Malaysian Government to Address Religious Status Problem
01/25/2021 Malaysia (International Christian Concern) – The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) has called on government agencies to deal with ID cases marking the wrong religious status of Sarawakians, including the Orang Asal communities.
According to Free Malaysia Today, Sarawak Suhakam commissioner Madeline Berma said the state’s Islamic Religious Department should also expedite the handling of such cases. Oftentimes, non-Muslim ethnic group Orang Asal were categorized as Muslims when applying for a new MyKad (Malaysian ID) because their names contained the word “bin” or “binti,” which are commonly associated with Muslim names.
Catholic radio station spreads the word in Malaysia
Kekitaan FM reports overwhelming response to its mission of evangelization and pastoral care
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Bishop Cornelius Piong of Keningau joins staff of Catholic online radio station Kekitaan FM to mark three months of broadcasting on Jan. 3. (Photo supplied)
Didroy Joneh was entrusted to oversee all affairs of Kekitaan FM, the online Catholic radio station of the Diocese of Keningau in the northern Malaysian state of Sabah, when it was launched on Oct. 3 last year.
After nearly four months of broadcasting, the young manager of the Malay-language station describes the public response as “overwhelming.”
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Stay in a squalid refugee camp hopeless, starving, and made to feel a burden or leave, risking death, rape, human trafficking and months at sea to reach a husband you ve never met.
This is the bleak choice many Rohingya women, already scarred from fleeing violent persecution in Myanmar, are now facing.
As conditions deteriorate in increasingly overcrowded Bangladeshi refugee camps, desperate parents are marrying off their daughters to Rohingya men thousands of kilometres (miles) away in Malaysia.
Rohingya refugee Janu, 18, whose family had arranged to marry a Rohingya man working as a labourer in Malaysia, at a temporary shelter in Lhokseumawe, Indonesia s Aceh province. - AFP
KUTUPALONG Bangladesh (AFP): Stay in a squalid refugee camp hopeless, starving, and made to feel a burden or leave, risking death, rape, human trafficking and months at sea to reach a husband you ve never met.
This is the bleak choice many Rohingya women, already scarred from fleeing violent persecution in Myanmar, are now facing.
As conditions deteriorate in increasingly overcrowded Bangladeshi refugee camps, desperate parents are marrying off their daughters to Rohingya men thousands of kilometres (miles) away in Malaysia.
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