Tag: Indonesian Christians
Church loses 1/3 of its members in ill-fated Air Asia flight
THE world's fourth-most populated country, Indonesia has about 250 million people. Any of them might have boarded AirAsia Flight QZ8501, never to come home.
HRW chides Indonesian president for failing to protect minorities
HUMAN Rights Watch, an international non-governmental organization, has called on the Indonesian president to adopt a "zero tolerance" method to attacks on religious minorities.
New plane to aid Bible translation efforts in Indonesia
WYCLIFFE Associates, an organization that involves people in the acceleration of Bible translation efforts, is seeking to raise $1.5 million toward the purchase of a Pilatus PC-6 aircraft for operation in Indonesia.
Angry Muslim crowd attacks churches in 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.
Top Indonesian cleric warns against over-the-top Christmas!
THE country’s highest Islamic authority on Dec 23 said opulent Christmas decorations at shopping malls in the Muslim-dominated country could anger non-Christians.
Muslim demonstrators seal house churches in Indonesia
HARDLINE Muslim demonstrators disrupted Sunday worship of a church in Bandung and chased over 100 Christians out of the building.
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