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| Female Pastor Shot While Giving Sermon in Church in Indonesia |
| 2004-07-24 |
| From Yahoo News (Reuters; link found in Free Republic) Gunmen burst into a church in eastern Indonesia and shot dead a female reverend and wounded four of her congregation as she delivered her sermon, sparking fears of fresh religious violence, officials said on Monday. All four of the wounded were teenagers and one of them, an 18-year-old girl shot in the left eye, had only a slim chance of surviving after the raid late on Sunday in Palu city in Central Sulawesi, a police spokesman said. Palu is near the regency of Poso, where more than 2,000 people have died in Muslim-Christian clashes 1999. "Five men opened fire at the front door of the Effata church after threatening the security guard," said spokesman Victor Batara from Palu, about 1,500 km (900 miles) northeast of Jakarta. The gunmen fled on two motorcycles. Protestant minister Susianti Tinolele, who previously lived in Poso died at the scene, he said. Local media reported Tinolele, 29, fell straight to the church floor after a bullet rammed through her skull, prompting around 100 churchgoers to frantically run for safety. .... The incident comes after an Easter shooting in April in Poso town that wounded seven people, including a four-year-old girl and last May's murder of a prosecutor in Palu after he attended a Bible-reading session. Some 85 percent of Indonesia's 220 million people are Muslim. In some eastern parts, such as the Poso-Palu area, Christian and Muslim populations are about equal in size. .... |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #2 May Christians show Muslims and mosques as much respect they show. |
| Posted by: ed 2004-07-24 4:45:52 PM |
| #1 Ah... yes... the religion of Peace. Strange how this is not being reported on CNN/ABC/NBC/CBS/etc... Do you think they are deliberately not covering this news report? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-07-24 2:00:00 PM |