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Embattled Indonesian Church Services Disrupted Again
By Dan Wooding BOGOR, WEST JAVA, INDONESIA (ANS) – A crowd of Muslim hard-liners disrupted about 100 members of the embattled GKI Yasmin congregation as they held divine services at a member’s home in Bogor, West Java, on Sunday. “We were conducting our worship at one member’s home before people from Forkami and Garis came to our place,” GKI Yasmin spokeswoman Dwiati Novita Rini told The Jakarta Post (www.thejakartapost.com) over the telephone on Sunday. Dwiati said she did … Read entire article »
Filed under: Assist News Service, Christian, Indonesia, Persecution
Anti-Christian Incidents Nearly Doubled in Indonesia in 2011
By Vishal Arora NEW DELHI (Compass Direct News) – Acts of violence and intolerance against Christians in Indonesia almost doubled in 2011, with an Islamist campaign to close down churches symbolizing the plight of the religious minority. The Indonesian Protestant Church Union, locally known as PGI, counted 54 acts of violence and other violations against Christians in 2011, up from 30 in 2010. The number of such incidents against religious minorities in general also grew, from 198 in … Read entire article »
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Indonesian Church Denied Site as New Religious Tolerance Bill Threatens Freedoms
‘Religious Tolerance Bill’ would only entrench discrimination, critics say. By Sarah Page DUBLIN (Compass Direct News) – Members of a church in Bogor, West Java, are determined to continue meeting outside their sealed building each Sunday until they are granted freedom to worship inside it, despite a ban on street meetings issued by the local mayor. “The church will never give up meeting together,” a local source who preferred to remain unnamed said of the Indonesian Christian Church … Read entire article »
Filed under: Compass Direct, Indonesia
Muslim crowd attacks churches in Indonesia
By Michael Ireland Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service JAVA, INDONESIA (ANS) — More than 1,000 Muslim protesters have stormed a courthouse and burned two churches in central Java, Indonesia. According to the BBC website, the attacks in Temanggung happened after a Christian man was sentenced to five years in jail for distributing leaflets deemed insulting to Islam. The BBC reported that Indonesian police said the crowd considered the sentence too lenient and were demanding the death penalty. The BBC said the incident came two days after Muslim villagers in western Java killed three members of a minority Islamic sect. A police spokesman told the BBC that the angry crowd began attacking the court building in Temanggung after the verdict was read out. The violence spread to surrounding neighborhoods where two churches were set on fire and a … Read entire article »
Filed under: Assist News Service, Christian, Indonesia, Persecution
Police Demolish Church House in Indonesia
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). … Read entire article »
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