By Anil Netto,
People are still talking about the PM’s aides asking the church to remove religious symbols at the Christmas tea party to which the PM and opposition leaders were invited.
In today’s Malaysian Insider, Utusan’s Ridhuan Tee has chipped in with his idiotic two cents’ worth. (I don’t know why people pay attention to what he says.) Meanwhile, a priest phoned me just now to find out what exactly had happened. One Christian emailed, critical not only of the PM’s aides but of the church itself: the big question, he wanted to know, did the Archbishop agree to the PM’s aides demands/instructions/advice? What concessions, if any were actually made?
The Christmas party is an annual event organised by the Christian Federation of Malaysia, an ecumenical umbrella body representing the main Protestant, Oriental Orthodox, Evangelical and Catholic churches in the country. This year, it was the turn of the Catholic Church to play host and so it was held at the residence of Catholic Archbishop Murphy Pakiam, or more precisely at the car park of the premises, where the issue of religious symbols didn’t arise in the first place. Read more
People are still talking about the PM’s aides asking the church to remove religious symbols at the Christmas tea party to which the PM and opposition leaders were invited.
In today’s Malaysian Insider, Utusan’s Ridhuan Tee has chipped in with his idiotic two cents’ worth. (I don’t know why people pay attention to what he says.) Meanwhile, a priest phoned me just now to find out what exactly had happened. One Christian emailed, critical not only of the PM’s aides but of the church itself: the big question, he wanted to know, did the Archbishop agree to the PM’s aides demands/instructions/advice? What concessions, if any were actually made?
The Christmas party is an annual event organised by the Christian Federation of Malaysia, an ecumenical umbrella body representing the main Protestant, Oriental Orthodox, Evangelical and Catholic churches in the country. This year, it was the turn of the Catholic Church to play host and so it was held at the residence of Catholic Archbishop Murphy Pakiam, or more precisely at the car park of the premises, where the issue of religious symbols didn’t arise in the first place. Read more
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