Rupert Update...
May 05, 2005 @ 03:25 AMBackground refresher: Rick Rupert – a friend of mine from church a while back – was recently arrested in Malaysia for allegedly handing out Christian tracts outside a mosque. I use the term allegedly a bit tongue-in-cheek, because anyone who knows him has no doubt he would do that.
Anyway, I just heard this morning that he was released from jail, all charges were dropped, and he is being permitted to stay inside the country. If anyone knows anything more about this story, please comment, especially if I’m wrong in any way.
I’m assuming the US embassy intervened in this matter. Probably convinced Malaysia that it was not in their best interest given the current state of the world for a little Islamic nation to jail a couple of Christian kids from America. Either way, it looks like the situation is over.