Germany’s Ministry for Immigration and Refugees is rejecting many applications for asylum from Iranian and Afghan converts from Islam to Christianity, following ‘kangaroo court’-style hearings it was reported in January.
The Revd Gottfried Martens, who has baptised more than 1,000 former Muslims, in a letter to supporters of his ministry, accused the ‘almost exclusively Muslim translators’ in the hearings of deliberately falsely translating the converts’ responses to jeopardise their applications.
In some hearings, Martens said asylum applicants ‘repeatedly undergo being mocked and laughed at when they relate how it is important to them that Jesus Christ died for their sins on the cross’.
