Imagine if Christians anywhere broke up a gathering for Islamic prayer, which would never happen and should never happen. It would be front-page news for weeks. But no one will take any particular notice of this news from “moderate” Indonesia.
“Indonesia Islamists Breakup House Church Meeting,” by Stefan J. Bos, BosNewsLife, April 21, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
JAKARTA, INDONESIA (BosNewsLife)– Indonesia’s hardline Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) group broke up a house church meeting in the country’s West Java province, prompting an angry response from the governor.
Video footage obtained by BosNewsLife showed two men bursting into a home Sunday in Cikarang, 48 kilometers (30 miles) southwest of Jakarta, the nation’s capital.
Among the attackers was the area’s senior FPI party official identified as Ustad Muliana, several sources confirmed. The video purportedly showed him and another person threatening worshippers. One of them physically attacked Christians with a piece of wood. No serious injuries were reported.
But the raid interrupted the Sunday service of a house church linked to the largest Protestant denomination in Indonesia, known as Huria Kristen Batak Protestant (HKBP), or ‘Batak Christian Protestant Church.’
St.J.Sihombing and his wife Br. Sianturi, who were leading the meeting, said the violence began when 10 Christians gathered in their home for worship. Separately Christians told BosNewsLife that the couple organized the gathering according to “government recommendations in the new coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic.”…