Srinagar, Jan 19: A Sharia court Thursday issued a decree seeking expulsion of five Christian priests from Jammu and Kashmir and monitoring of the activities of Christian missionary schools in the Valley.

Maintaining that the decree of the Sharia court was not against the Christians in any manner, Nasir-ul-Islam, deputy to Grand Mufti, Mufti Basheerudin, told a news conference the Shariah Court had found the Pastor CM Khanna, Gayoor Massi, Chandra Kanta, Chandra and Pastor Jim Borst “guilty of spreading immorality and luring Muslims, especially young boys and girls, to Christianity by exploiting their poverty.”

He said the Shariah Court had issued the decree after pastor Khanna “confessed to the crime.”  read more »