Bekasi, Indonesia. Assailants stabbed a Christian worshipper in the stomach and pounded a minister in the head with a wooden plank as they headed to morning prayers Sunday outside Indonesia’s capital.
 
Neither of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening.

No one claimed responsibility for the attacks. But suspicion immediately fell on Islamic hard-liners who have repeatedly warned members of the Batak Christian Protestant Church against worshipping on a field housing their now-shuttered church. (more…)

Bekasi, Indonesia. A church leader was stabbed in the stomach and a reverend beaten during an attack on a group of Christians forced to pray in a field in Bekasi on Sunday morning.

Saor Siagian, a lawyer representing the Batak Christian Protestant Church (HKBP) Pondok Timur Indah congregation, told the Jakarta Globe an elders was stabbed by an unknown motocyclists on Sunday morning. (more…)