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August 15, 2010

AP: Religious minorities in Indonesia push back

by Irwan Firdaus
The Associated Press

BEKASI, Indonesia (AP) — Tired of government inaction, Christians and other religious minorities in Indonesia are pushing back against rising violence by Islamic hard-liners.

Christians were warned last week against worshipping on a field that houses a shuttered church in the industrial city of Bekasi, but 20 members of the congregation showed up anyway, opening their service with a hymn.

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