Suspected Islamists were behind the burning of three homes used as churches on Sumatra Island’s Riau province in August, though a political motive also may have played a role, Christian leaders said. Muslim mobs burned the meeting places of a Batak Karo Protestant Church (BKPC) congregation and a Pentecostal Church in Indonesia (PCI) group Aug. 1, and that of a…
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