Serious discuss ion: The Herald
KOTA KINABALU: Churches in Sabah are concerned that the Court of Appeal ruling banning The Herald from using the term “Allah” would lead to a wider restriction on the use of the word among bumiputra Christians in Malaysia, says Sabah Council of Churches president Bishop Datuk Thomas Tsen.
He noted that there were 1.6 million bumiputra Christians in Sabah and Sarawak who use Bahasa Malaysia in their worship in addition to their native languages and they make up about two-thirds of the country’s Christians.
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