‘Worship in the woods’

Posted on November 11, 2016 
Filed under World news

acehChurches destroyed a year ago by Islamic extremists and police in Aceh Singkil – a rural ‘regency’ in Indonesia’s only Sharia-ruled province – have still not been rebuilt because of discrimination against Christians by local authorities, say church leaders. However, despite the troubles, church membership is climbing. …”

– This report from World Watch Monitor.

(By complete contrast: Nature’s dome is Church of the Wood’s only chapel, Episcopal News Service.)