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| Christians in Indonesian City Reject New Site to Replace Shuttered Church |
| 2021-08-15 |
| [BenarNews] Some members of a church shuttered by authorities in an Indonesian city in 2008 after locals opposed it are insisting the church be reopened, their front man said, after the mayor allowed them to build a new house of worship elsewhere. Human rights groups have cited the controversy surrounding the GKI Yasmin church in Bogor, just south of Jakarta, as an example of growing intolerance in Indonesia. The Christian minority in the world’s largest Moslem-majority country represents about 11 percent of the population. Mayor Bima Arya Sugiarto should respect a 2010 Supreme Court |
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