“The closure of so many churches in Aceh, continued attacks on churches in West Java, the persecution of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community and now the sentencing of [atheist] Alexander An all illustrate the rising religious intolerance in Indonesia.”
Source/Credit: CWN
By CWN | June 22, 2012
Local officials in the Aceh Singkil Regency in Indonesia have closed 20 churches and will likely demolish them.
The officials cited a 2006 regulation requiring the approval of 60 local non-Christians before church construction can begin. Local Muslim leaders, according to an Indonesian press report, ordered Muslims not to offer this approval.
One of the churches likely to be demolished was built in 1932.
“The closure of so many churches in Aceh, continued attacks on churches in West Java, the persecution of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community and now the sentencing of [atheist] Alexander An all illustrate the rising religious intolerance in Indonesia,” said Andrew Johnston of Christian Solidarity Worldwide.
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