Friday, June 08, 2007

If you check out this website: http://www.indonesiamatters.com/1308/sunday-school/ it talks about a sunday school being attacked while in progress and the pastors wife hit over the head with a Bible. Here in Indonesia, if people want to build a church they have to have a building permit and the signatures of 40 heads of families living in the vicinity. Without that you are not allowed to build. Of course, mosques can be built anywhere without all the hassle. So if people feel that you are building a church without proper permission, they will go in and destroy it and the police won't do anything about it. People, and I think you all know who I am talking about, will also destroy the contents of an old established church because there are too many m*slim converts attending it. As you know, it is considered the ultimate sin to convert to Christianity. There are now many churches meeting in malls. There have been times where truck loads of people have come to the mall with the intent to destroy it. Of course then the police step in because all the shop owners would be very angry if they didn't. So churches here have to be very, very careful.

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