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Saturday, October 8, 2016

Jail for man who set church sign on fire

Source Website: http://news.asiaone.com/news/crime/jail-man-who-set-church-sign-fire
By Amir Hussain, The Straits Times, Saturday, 8 October 2016


Cyrus Teo King Huat, 44, set a sign outside the church, bearing Lighthouse Evangelism's name, on fire on May 13, 2016.
PHOTO: Cyrus Teo King Huat, 44, set a sign outside the church, bearing Lighthouse Evangelism's name, on fire on May 13, 2016. He was jailed for 10 months.
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A disgruntled (angry or dissatisfied) former member of Lighthouse Evangelism church, who was suffering from delusional (false belief) disorder, placed joss sticks and chicken heads outside the church in Woodlands on several occasions.

But Cyrus Teo King Huat, 44, was caught on camera when he set fire to a sign bearing Lighthouse Evangelism's name on May 13. The church had installed a closed-circuit television camera to monitor the sign, which is outside the church, after it had been set ablaze several times.

Yesterday, Teo was jailed 10 months after he pleaded guilty to one charge of mischief by fire.

Three other charges were taken into consideration in sentencing: mischief by fire, refusing to allow a policeman to take his photo and finger impressions, and refusing to give a blood sample.

Teo used to attend Lighthouse Evangelism, a non-denominational megachurch at 81, Woodlands Circle, the court heard.

On Sept 23 last year, he sent a letter to the church saying he had changed his religion. "Teo was dissatisfied with the church, and also admitted to placing joss sticks and chicken heads outside the church on several occasions," said Deputy Public Prosecutor Esther Tang.

On Oct 2 last year, Pastor Timothy Tan Soo Chai, 57, found three chicken heads, joss sticks and burnt candles in front of the church sign. He found three more chicken heads at the church's side gate.

On May 13 this year, Mr Tan found the church sign burnt. He called the police.

Video footage showed a man splashing a flammable liquid on the sign, before setting it alight at 1.55am and running away. Police tracked Teo down. The church spent $19,020 to repair the sign.


Video footage showed a man splashing a flammable liquid on the sign, before setting it alight at 1.55am and running away.
PHOTO: Video footage showed a man splashing a flammable liquid on the sign, before setting it alight at 1.55am and running away. Police tracked Teo down.
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Teo admitted to burning the sign on a previous occasion, some time between 9am on May 2 and 12.45am the next day.

On May 3, while under arrest at Jurong Police Division on suspicion of having committed mischief by fire, Teo refused to give a blood sample to a policeman.

On July 13, again under arrest at the same police station for the same crime, he refused to have his photos and finger impressions taken.

Teo's pro-bono lawyer Cheryl Ng Huiling said he is seeking treatment at the Institute of Mental Health for delusional disorder. Teo believed that he was under a curse, and that burning the sign would remove the curse, the lawyer said.


Pastor John Hagee, whose book Four Blood Moons sparked worldwide interest in the phenomenon earlier this year, said it was now too late for mankind to prevent a 'huge' event that would change humanity forever.
PHOTO: Pastor John Hagee, whose book Four Blood Moons sparked worldwide interest in the phenomenon earlier this year, said it was now too late for mankind to prevent a 'huge' event that would change humanity forever.
Chapter Two of the Book of Joel predicts that the "sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood" (Joel 2:31) before the second coming of Jesus Christ.
And Pastor Hagee said: "God is sending us a signal. Something huge is about to happen. Something is going to change, forever. . ."
"These four blood moons are sending a very clear message to every single person on earth. But are we listening?" - Pastor John Hagee
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By Amir Hussain, The Straits Times, Saturday, 8 October 2016
This article was first published on Oct 08, 2016.
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Joel 2 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joel+2&version=NIV

Joel 2:31 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joel+2%3A31&version=NIV

Revelation 9:2-3 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+9%3A2-3&version=NIV
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Monday, April 6, 2015

One mother's agonising decision

My Paper, Monday, April 6, 2015, Page A7, Top Stories
From http://epaper.mypaper.sg/emnd/fvxen/fvxp/fvxpress.php?param=2015-04-06
Source Website: http://mypaper.sg/top-stories/one-mothers-agonising-decision-20150406
By Maureen Koh, The New Paper, mypaper, myp@sph.com.sg, Published on Apr 06, 2015


One mother's agonising moment
PHOTO: One mother's agonising moment: "I was so shocked. I couldn't believe that my 'guai guai zai' (good son in Cantonese) had turned into a stranger."
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FOR more than a month, Chua Kee Ching agonised over what to do.

"It was the hardest decision of my life, but reporting my son to the police was the only way I could make him come to his senses," the 52-year-old production worker says in Cantonese. "He is my only child. I didn't want his future to be ruined if he ended up with a police record."

Her son, then 17, had gone on a rebellious path in secondary school.

She says: "Do you know, he actually scored an aggregate of 240 for his PSLE? My son went to a good school, but somehow, when he was in Secondary 2, something just went wrong."

And she is certain it had nothing to do with her being a single parent.

"My husband died (of cancer) when my boy was eight. If anything, I felt that his father's death made him grow up overnight," says Madam Chua with a wry smile.

"He'd help with the household chores when I was at work, and he kept promising me he'd study hard so we could both have a better life."

To reward her son for his good results, Madam Chua even saved up to take him to the Gold Coast in Australia.

But things started to go downhill after her son turned 14. "Suddenly, he was an angry teenager... He'd come home late at night, still in his school uniform and smelling of stale cigarettes," she recalls. "Because he was at that age, I controlled my urge to scold him and tried to advise him instead. I had to keep my worries at bay."

Then one day, the school called to tell her her 15-year-old would be suspended for punching his physical education teacher. She says: "I was so shocked. I couldn't believe that my 'guai guai zai' (good son in Cantonese) had turned into a stranger."

During the two weeks of suspension, her son returned home only twice - the first time to stuff some clothes into a paper bag. Five days later, he turned up to demand $300 from her. "At first I refused. I kept asking him what he needed it for, but he just said: 'You can give me the money or you can regret it later if you don't'," says Madam Chua.

In the end, she gave in. "Later on, when I thought back about the early days, I realised that it was me who had allowed my son to go further astray. I should have stood my ground," she says.

Her son stayed out of trouble when he returned to school and she thought "closing one eye" would help ease the tension.

He did well enough to get into a junior college but insisted on going to a polytechnic. "I was happy that he did well and I didn't mind. I thought he had got over that phase," she says.

Until one day when she was cleaning her son's room. She had picked up his backpack and had accidentally dropped it on the floor. "I heard a clang so I opened it. To my horror, there was a long kitchen

knife and the blade was wrapped with a piece of newspaper. My hands were shaking, my heart was beating so fast."

Yet she did not confront her son.

"I don't know why... I just put the knife back and went about my chores."

But the image of the knife kept replaying in her mind.

"Finally, I told my sister about it. And the first thing she said was: Call the police.

"I screamed at her: Are you mad? He is my son! How can I do that? I was in denial then. I didn't want to face up to the fact that I had lost control of my only child."

Three weeks later, she confronted her son about the knife.

"It was his reaction that woke me up. Glaring at me, he warned me never to touch his things. He even told me to keep out of his room. 'Do that or live to regret for the rest of your life,' he told me. It was then I knew I had to save my own son."

Two days later, she approached her sister "for strength" and together, they walked into a neighbourhood police centre.

"When my son came home from school that afternoon, two policemen were waiting for him at the void deck," she says quietly.

For possessing an offensive weapon, he was arrested, convicted and sent to a reformative training centre for 18 months. "Fortunately, he had not done anything seriously wrong, otherwise it would have been worse. But the first few months were terrible. He didn't even want to see me."

When he was finally released, he went to live with her sister and mother. "By then, he didn't mind being in the same room as me but he refused to acknowledge me."

The good thing, she adds, was that he started going to church with his aunt.

"Then two days before Christmas, I returned home to find him at our doorstep with his belongings. We were a mess that day. He cried, apologised and asked that I forgive him.
"I knew my 'guai guai zai' had returned to his mother."

By Maureen Koh, The New Paper, mypaper, myp@sph.com.sg, Published on Apr 06, 2015



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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

No entry to church if you turn up in this....

My Paper, Tuesday, Feburary 7, 2012, Page A2, Home
From http://epaper.mypaper.sg/cnd/fvxen/fvxp/fvxpress.php?param=2012-02-07
Source Website: http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20120207-326228.html
By Sarah Chang, schang@sph.com.sg, my paper, Tuesday, Feb 07, 2012



PHOTO: Suit-able?: The samfoo that Ms Lisa Chew wore to church.
By STOMP
My Paper, Tuesday, Feburary 7, 2012, Page A2, Home


A WOMAN who went for Sunday mass at a Catholic church two weeks ago was shocked when a church warden approached her after the service and took issue with her outfit.

Ms Lisa Chew, a housewife in her 50s, was wearing a pink samfoo, a Chinese-style pantsuit that ended about 5cm above her ankles.

She was at the Church of St Anthony in Woodlands with her husband, Mr Eric Alagan, 56, a business consultant.

They have attended services at the church for more than a decade.

The warden, who looked to be in her 20s, told Ms Chew politely that she would not be allowed into the church if she turned up in the attire again, said Mr Alagan.

She was then handed a letter reminding her not to wear clothing that does not conform to the church's dress code.

The couple knew what the letter was about as they had seen wardens handing out similar letters in previous weeks' masses.

Ms Chew was taken aback as she had worn a similar outfit to the church last month but was not approached.

First mooted by the church in February last year, the dress code was implemented in December.

The guidelines were published in the church's weekly bulletin on Jan 1. The bulletin was given out to all churchgoers.

The code allows women to wear skirts or dresses that end 2.5cm to 5cm above the knees.

So, "it doesn't make sense" that a samfoo pantsuit that ends just 5cm above the ankles is not allowed, said Mr Alagan.

He said: "Be reasonable and consistent. That's all I'm asking for."

Mr Alagan asked the parish priest via e-mail how the pantsuit "offended any sensitivities, or outraged anyone's modesty".

He added that "the priest's e-mailed reply read, 'There is no mention of modesty or immodesty. We say it is appropriate for pants to be full-length' ".

Frustrated with the reply, he posted a photo of his wife's outfit on citizen-journalism website Stomp last Friday.

The post has attracted over 26,000 views and about 165 comments.



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Some netizens think that churchgoers should follow the rules set by their church, while others consider the rules to be too "puritanical" (Rigorous in religious observance).

One netizen said: "I really don't see what is wrong with her dress. I can understand mini skirts being frowned (upon), but this is not in that league."

Another said: "What you wear speaks (volumes) about you. As a lawyer, you will not wear three-quarter pants to court because" it shows a lack of respect for the institution."

my paper contacted the church on Sunday for an explanation.

The Archdiocese of Singapore replied in an e-mail yesterday that it is reviewing the dress codes of all 31 parishes here to decide whether the guidelines should be "implemented at the Archdiocese (the district or churches under the jurisdiction of a bishop) level".

Dress codes at Catholic churches have become stricter in recent years. Novena Church's Father Clement Lee told my paper that a standardisation of dress-code guidelines may turn out to be "counter-productive" for the majority of parishioners.

"The challenge will be to make these guidelines applicable to the majority. But then again, most are already doing their part," he said.

"These are guidelines, not impositions. They are supposed to be recommended, rather than forced on someone.

If the Archdiocese wants all churches to undertake them, they should be called rules and regulations."

By Sarah Chang, schang@sph.com.sg, my paper, Tuesday, Feb 07, 2012



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