Christians could face one year prison sentence for encouraging conversion to their faith, according to a new controversial legislation being introduced in Israel. The legislation which is being proposed by ultra-Orthodox members of Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition would also proscribe Christians from engaging in religious discussion with Jews.

Titled Proposed Penal Law: Amendment – Prohibition of Solicitation for Religious Conversion – 2023, the legislation is introduced by United Torah Judaism's Moshe Gafni and Yaakov Asher. The law would apply to anyone who would attempt to persuade someone to change their religious beliefs, however the legislation specifically mentions the Christian faith, saying that "recently, the attempts of missionary groups, mainly Christians, to solicit conversion of religion have increased."

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  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    We never attracted much of a religious user base so it sort of felt like who are we even defending here?

    Palestinian Christians who have been Christian for 2000 years? Like, they're the OG Christians. Their ancestors straight up met Jesus. If anyone has claim to being the real Christians, it's them.