The Persecution Times » Entries tagged with "Bogor"
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
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
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 »
Filed under: Christian, Compass Direct, Indonesia, Persecution
