WEST JAVA, INDONESIA (ANS) — Compass Direct News (CDN) is reporting that Public Order personnel supported Bogor police officers as they demolished a house where a church regularly met in a village in Bogor Regency, West Java, Indonesia, on Monday (July 19, 2010).
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Compass Direct News reports: JAKARTA, Indonesia – Church members in Depok city, West Java, are unable to use their church building after the mayor, citing protests from area Muslims, revoked a permit issued in 1998. Under a Joint Ministerial Decree SKB issued in 1969 and revised in 2006, all religious groups in Indonesia must apply for permits >>>Continue reading >>> From Release International, this ten-minute webcast features news of the persecuted church in India, Indonesia, Iraq and Iran. Compass Direct News reports that Members of the Islamic Defenders’ Front FPI in Tangerang, Banten province, confronted and threatened to kill church leader Bedali Hulu yesterday as he visited his elderly mother-in-law in a rented home formerly used as a meeting place for his congregation. For the past 18 months Hulu’s Jakarta Baptist Christian Church GKJB in >>>Continue reading >>> Compass Direct News reports that: Muslim extremists and local government authorities last week threatened to tear down a church building under construction in North Sumatra even though church leaders met requirements of Indonesia’s draconian law on worship places, the church’s pastor said. Emboldened by local authorities’ unwillingness to grant a church building permit to Protestant Bataks Christian >>>Continue reading >>> |
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