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Posted by RaptureRH (Member # 5120) on :

Churches forced to close in Indonesia

More and more churches in Indonesia are being forced to close as a campaign against minority Christians intensifies in the world's largest Muslim nation.

According to Christian Freedom International, a group that helps persecuted believers around the world, being a Christian in Indonesia is getting more difficult.

Said the group's president, Jim Jacobson: "Religious persecution targeting minority Christians in Indonesia, particularly in West Java, is both systemic and systematic."

Jacobson conducted a fact-finding mission to Indonesia last month, visiting numerous forcibly closed churches in West Java.

CFI says a radical Islamic group, AGAP, or Aliansi Gerakan Ant Pemurtadan, which translated means Anti-Apostasy Alliance Movement, is responsible for much of the persecution. Christian Freedom International is urging Indonesia's Muslim government to allow religious freedom and intervene to stop the forced shutdown of churches by AGAP.

Said Jacobson in a statement: "AGAP has a mission to close churches and basically eradicate Christianity in Indonesia. They use fear, intimidation, threats and obscure government regulations, in cooperation with local officials, to accomplish their goal."

CFI quotes one Indonesian Christian, Jacob, telling the story of one church closure:

I was cleaning up after the 5 p.m. worship service. AGAP came through the doors. These were not our neighbors; they were from the outside. More than 50 of them came into the church, wearing masks and carrying swords and backpacks of stones. I was so afraid.

They were very angry. They were shouting, "Allah Akbar!" I went out to call for help from the neighbors and call the police to come. The police came but did nothing.

The AGAP came in around 10 p.m. They left at 3 a.m. the next morning. They said this is the last time you can worship here. They said we must not worship here again.

At least 35 churches in Bandung and neighboring regions have had been closed by Islamic mobs during the past 12 months alone, CFI reported.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46658

Posted by RaptureRH (Member # 5120) on :

Indonesia is home to the largest Muslim population on earth - and the world has little noted the numerous killings of Christian men, women and children in that nation over the past several years - mainly at the hands of their muslim "neighbors"

Posted by WhiteEagle (Member # 3728) on :

Well if a 8.9 on the Richter Scale earthquake couldn't wake up the Muslims in that area, what will? They endured terrible tradegy with the earth quake and tsunami last December. That area of the world sits on a huge rift and the smaller earthquakes have continued in the Indian Ocean area since December and they also sit on a Volcanic ridge.

God moved the earth once in that area, and He can do it again.

Posted by RaptureRH (Member # 5120) on :

Agreed - However I read at the time that the muslims managed to twist the "logic" into being either:

a) An event somehow caused by the evil Zionist Jews with the help of secret US technology

OR

b) A sign from Allah that the muslims needed to do more to destroy Israel from the face of the earth

Unfortunately they are spiritually blinded from any measure of truth