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Church attack routs thousands of Indonesian Christians

October 20, 2015 Indonesia Aceh, Indonesia, Islamic Defenders Front, Papua, Sharia, Sumatra

Authorities in Indonesia’s Aceh region have started to tear down churches following last week’s religious violence that left at least one person dead and forced thousands of Christians to flee. Clashes broke out after Islamic hardliners burned down a church in Aceh Singkil on 13 Oct. According to local church . . . Read More

Indonesian Catholic and Protestant groups attacked by Islamists

June 12, 2014 Indonesia Islamic Defenders Front, Java, Pentecostals, Yogyakarta

Muslims protest the building of a church in Java, Indonesia; December 2010.World Watch Monitor Two church group attacks within 3 days of each other in Indonesia, which has the world’s largest Muslim population, have caused concern ahead of Presidential elections in July. They both occurred in Yogyakarta province’s Sleman . . . Read More

Indonesian pastor freed

April 30, 2013 Indonesia Churches, Indonesia, Islamic Defenders Front, Java, Pentecostals

Pastor Bernard Maukar has been released from prison. The Indonesia Pentecostal Church leader from Mekargalih village in West Java was jailed for three months in January for operating a church without a permit. Maukar denied the charges against him, but later told Open Doors International – an organisation that supports . . . Read More

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