Christian church leaders stabbed, assaulted in Indonesia | News.com.au
A CHRISTIAN church leader was stabbed in the stomach and a reverend was beaten up in an attack on a group of worshippers in Indonesia yesterday.
The Christian church leaders were attacked as they prayed in a field in Bekasi, West Java, the Jakarta Globe reported.
The attack followed tension between the congregation and Islamic extremists in the region.
The hard-line religious group the Islamic Defenders Front (FDI) and Bakasi Mayor Mochtar Mohammad even prevented the Christian congregation from holding religious services in their local church, which was sealed shut.
The group to was instead forced to hold services in a field.
Saor Siagian, a lawyer representing the Batak Christian Protestant Church's (HKBP) Pondok Timur Indah congregation, told the newspaper that the church leaders were stabbed by unknown motorcyclists during yesterday's service. More, click this
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