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“Church Sealed, Pastor Dragged and Threatened in Indonesia,” Morning Star News, September 3, 2024:
SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – About 50 officials from Jombang Regency, Indonesia on Aug. 18 dragged a pastor from his worship site and sealed the shop where his church met, sources said. The sealing of the worship site was part of a Jombang government effort to recover dozens of shops the government says it owns at a business compound in the Weru area of Mojongapit village, East Java Province. Pastor Herri Soesanto described the government seizure of the two-story shop-house used by his Good God Church (Gereja Gembala Baik, or GAB) in the Simpang Tiga Shopping Compound, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of Surabaya, as “violent and anarchic.” “I was harassed and dragged by a mob that I estimated was about 50 people,” Pastor Herri said in a podcast interview with Gus Aan Anshori, son of a leading Muslim cleric. “What was disappointing was those people who closed my church were my friends.”… Pastor Herri said there has been no solution to the problem. “What is the government’s attitude towards religious tolerance if the church is closed now?” he said. “I ask for the wisdom of the Jombang Regency government. What will happen to our congregation?”…
