This article is very interesting and I thought you might enjoy it. I found it on the Worldwide Religious News Website and the title of the article is called Bandung scholar defends freedom of religion
Here are a few interesting excerpts:
Jakarta, Indonesia - Two years ago, before the recent attack on the Muslim Ahmadiyah group, 230 members of the "Prophet Hut" Christian sect were forcibly removed by police from a church in Bale Endah, Bandung.
After dispersing the group, police arrested and sent to trial the sect's leader, Mangapin Sibuea, who was later sentenced to two years' jail after being found guilty of denigrating Christianity...."We issued that ban in order to prevent a religion (Christianity) from being besmirched," said Teten Setiawan, the chief of the intelligence and social affairs division of the West Java Prosecutor's Office. ...
Ahmadiyah, which began in Pakistan in the 19th century, is a controversial offshoot of Islam, with followers believing in the literal resurrection of Jesus Christ and the existence of another prophet...
Pretty interesting.
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