PHOENIX — An eyewitness to the persecution Christians are suffering at the hands of Muslim extremists in Indonesia has challenged Southern Baptists to intervene with the gospel.
“In Maluku and some other parts of Indonesia, Christians are being persecuted because … radical Muslim groups … realize the Christian faith is growing incredibly in Indonesia,” Ronnie Serworwora told messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Phoenix June 18.
He talked with IMB President Jerry Rankin before an estimated 4,000 attendees during the final session of the annual meeting.
Serworwora, currently a student at Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary in Memphis, Tenn., testified about the persecution he and other Christians have experienced in Indonesia, which has the world’s largest Muslim population.
“For more than four years Christians [in Indonesia’s Maluku Islands] suffered cruel attacks from … Jihad holy warriors,” Serworwora said. “At least 300 churches were burned down and thousands of Christians were killed there.”
Muslim extremists are trying to wipe out Christianity in the Malukus because doing so will demonstrate that Islam can triumph in other parts of Indonesia, Serworwora said.
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