In the Islamic scheme of things, the Islamic community must always grow, and the non-Muslim community always diminish. In this case, the pretext appears to be the fact that a Muslim woman converted to Christianity; Islam forbids non-Muslims to proselytize among Muslims. This woman says Jesus appeared to her in a dream, but apparently even Jesus Himself is forbidden to proselytize as far as this imam is concerned.
“Imam Orders Church to Stop Worship After 10 Years,” International Christian Concern, July 10, 2025 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
7/10/2025 Indonesia (International Christian Concern) — After pastoring his church in South Kalimantan, Indonesia, for more than a decade, Pastor “Matias” was recently ordered to stop leading worship services.
The order came from a new imam at a mosque that sits just 55 yards from the church. More than 40 people attend the services, which are held in a structure next to Matias’s home.
The imam claimed that the services were disturbing villagers. Anger toward Matias stems from an event that occurred four years ago, which has since angered the Muslim community. It was then that a Muslim woman visited Matias’s church, explaining that Jesus had appeared to her in her dreams. She came to the church to give her life to Christ and be baptized.
After news of the woman’s conversion and baptism spread and anger toward Matias boiled over, several Muslim men visited the pastor. They accused him of trying to convert the entire village to Christianity.
The woman later told the men that Pastor Matias wasn’t the one who baptized her and didn’t pressure her to leave Islam. She said she put her trust in Christ on her own volition.
After the imam prohibited Matias from leading worship, word spread that a group of Muslim men would prevent the church from hosting services. After hearing this, members of the Dayak tribe, an indigenous group to which Pastor Matias belongs, attempted to meet with the imam but were unable to locate him.
Despite being animists, the Dayak tribe visited the church and stayed the night to help guard it. Fortunately, the group of Muslim men did not show up….
Gurek says
Muslims are hypocrite snakes. They are building mosques all over the West. Yet Christians are not allowed to worship freely in their existing churches. Islam is proto fascism.
OLD GUY says
Islam will set mankind back to the dark ages. There is nothing religious about Islam. Islam is nothing but a political ideology that its leaders what to use to rule mankind. Their migration invasion of non-muslim countries is going to get a lot of people killed. Islam uses Rape, Violence and Murder to control its subjects period.
Alkflaeda says
As much as I regret the closure of the church, I hope that many more people in Indonesia respond to visions of Jesus, as has been happening in other Islamic countries, notably Iran https://stream.org/irans-secret-revolution-2000-a-day-turning-to-christ-in-the-heart-of-islams-harshest-regime/ and Gaza.
https://www.worthynews.com/94040-gaza-palestinians-having-visions-of-jesus-christians-remain-in-war-zone-to-offer-gospel-hope
Andrew Blackadder says
Muslims always seem afriad of anybody disagreeing with what they believe which makes me think they re very shallow in their own faith even going so far as killing somebody because they changed their mind about what god is or isnt.
islamism is the new version of nazism for the 21st century.