MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

And yes, in Pakistan, the name of Jesus is considered ‘obscene’ and is one of the words being blocked …

Matthew 24:9, “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake.”

Update 11/25/2011: Pakistan scraps plan to ban ‘Jesus’ text messages (for now) – Read more.

“The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has told mobile phone companies to begin blocking text messages containing ‘obscene’ words.

Mobile phone companies Telenor Pakistan and Ufone confirmed to the BBC that the PTA has sent them a ‘dictionary’ of banned words and expressions.

The PTA has reportedly ordered operators to begin screening text messages by 21 November.

Ufone say they are now working on how to block the offending words.

A letter dated 14 November, apparently written by Muhammad Talib Doger, an official at the PTA, has been leaked to Pakistani media.

It states that mobile phone operators should begin screening the words, provided on a list attached to the letter, within seven days.

‘We have received both the dictionary and the memo and we’re discussing a way forward,’ said Anjum Nida Rahman, corporate communications director for Telenor Pakistan.

The ban is a reaction to consumers’ complaints of receiving offensive text messages, Mohammad Younis, a spokesman for the PTA, told The Guardian newspaper.

‘Nobody would like this happening to their young boy or girl,’ he said. He added that the list was not finished and that the authority would continue to add to it.” Read more.

Flashback: Pakistan: The Existence of Christians Threatened Now More Than Ever Before, Persecution the Worse It Has Ever Been – “During a visit to Pakistan, the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches has urged for the protection of religious minorities and the need for the state to take necessary measures against religious intolerance… The church leaders shared with him how religious minorities especially Christians, ‘live in an atmosphere of insecurity. The existences of Christians have never been threatened as it is today, and the situation has gone worse in the past years,’ the WCC chief was told.” Read more.