Catholic Bishop Emeritus Dr Paul Tan Chee Ing has described the call by certain Muslim groups to ban Evangelical Christianity as “symptomatic of an insecurity that appears to be well-nigh incurable.”

Bishop Paul was reacting to a call by a Muslim NGO, Centre for Human Rights Research and Advocacy (Centra), that the government should ban Evangelical Christianity.

“Time and again we have seen certain individuals and groups raise a clamour about alleged Christian proselytisation of Muslims,” said the former head of the Melaka-Johor diocese of the Catholic Church and vocal exponent of freedom of religion and other human rights issues...