{"id":1349,"date":"2008-02-19T11:34:52","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T03:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/02\/19\/vote-wisely-says-christian-federation\/"},"modified":"2008-02-19T11:34:52","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T03:34:52","slug":"vote-wisely-says-christian-federation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/02\/19\/vote-wisely-says-christian-federation\/","title":{"rendered":"vote wisely says Christian Federation"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/a>Very rare (and I think I never heard) a religous body getting involved in the election process. CFM (Christian Federation of Malaysia) is asking its members and followers to “vote wisely”. Probably recent issues on use of the word “Allah”, confiscation of Bibles, and so on prompted CFM to issue this statement. <\/p>\n

There’s one\u00a0criteria on political manifesto and track\u00a0record:<\/p>\n

– citizen’s\u00a0rights on freedom of religion, conscience and speech<\/strong><\/p>\n

and asking voters to check if manifesto is consistent with actual track record.<\/p>\n

I wonder if MHS or MCCBHCCST will do the same?<\/p>\n

from CCM site<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Vote Wisely<\/h2>\n

With the announcement made of the dissolution of Parliament by the Prime Minister, the whole country has got into the General Elections fever. Between now and the polling date (8 March), Christians, as with all other citizens of the country will seek to make up their mind about which person or party to vote.<\/p>\n

The CFM Executive Committee calls upon the Churches.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. To Pray for an Election Campaign that is clean, fair and that does not heighten ethnic and religious tensions.<\/li>\n
  2. To encourage all eligible Christian voters to exercise their right to vote.<\/li>\n
  3. To disseminate widely the Vote Wisely brochure to all church members, and to have it reproduced in Sunday Bulletins and Church Newsletters.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The Campaign Flyer (in PDF File) is available in English, Bahasa Malaysia, Mandarin and Tamil.<\/p>\n

    To download Campaign Flyer in English, right click here and Save as<\/a>\u00a0(or can view it below)<\/p>\n

    To download Campaign Flyer in Bahasa Malaysia, right click here and Save as<\/a>\u00a0(or can view it below)<\/p>\n

    To download Campaign Flyer in Mandarin, right click here and Save as<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

    To download Campaign Flyer in Tamil, right click here and Save as<\/a>\u00a0(or can view it below)<\/p>\n

    Thank you for your cooperation.<\/p>\n

    Yours sincerely,
    \nRev Dr Hermen Shastri
    \nExecutive Secretary
    \nThe Christian Federation of Malaysia<\/p>\n

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    Very rare (and I think I never heard) a religous body getting involved in the election process. CFM (Christian Federation of Malaysia) is asking its members and followers to “vote wisely”. Probably recent issues on use of the word “Allah”, confiscation of Bibles, and so on prompted CFM to issue this statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[43,130],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-cfm","tag-election-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}