Indonesia

Alvaro (now 5) is one of the children that were wounded in a church bombing in Samarinda, Indonesia on the 13th of November 2016. He suffered severe burn injuries on half of his head, neck and hand. Alvaro has already…

Today, regional elections are underway in Indonesia. More than half the country’s population (approximately 152 066 685 people) have registered to vote for new executive heads for 17 provinces, 115 regencies and 39 cities. Last year December, at a rally,…

On Sunday, 13 May, a family of six suicide bombers, with ties to Islamic State (IS) attacked three churches in Indonesia’s Surabaya, the capital of East Java. At least 14 people were killed and a dozen others injured in the…

As Islamic State forces are pushed back and more areas declared “safe”, Syrians are starting to return to their homes. Sadly, an estimated 6.3 million people remain internally displaced across Syria, after more than six years of war, while a…

On 13 November 2016, after Sunday school in the grounds of a church in Samarinda, Indonesia, a man threw a cocktail bomb injuring Anita Sihotang (2), Alvaro Sinaga (4), Trinity Hutahaean (4) and Intan Banjarnahor (2). Intan who was the…

Doctor and mission worker, Wandi* and his wife decided to open a children’s learning centre in a poor community in Indonesia, after seeing how the children of the village wandered around every day instead of going to school. They taught…

One person was killed and eight injured when religious violence broke out between Muslims and Christians in Indonesia’s Aceh province on 13 October. Religious violence broke out between Muslims and Christians in Indonesia’s Aceh province on 13 October, three months…

For the third time in three decades, the Pakpak Dairi Christian Protestant Church (GKPPD) in Indonesia was set on fire on 18 August by extremists opposing Christianity. For the third time in three decades, the Pakpak Dairi Christian Protestant Church…