FIVE HOUSE CHURCHES IN INDONESIA SEALED BY FPI (ISLAMIC DEFENDER FRONT) AND CIVIL POLICE - CONGREGATION WEPT

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Five house churches in Rancaekek, Bandung, Indonesia sealed by Islamic organizations FPI and GARIS, and police civil service, sunday 12-12-2010, during sunday service.

Sealing is done by attach paper titled 'This Houses sealed by the Government' in the wall of each home residents.

Earlier, about 100 activists of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) and the Islamic Reform Movement (GARIS) sweep into several house churches in Bumi Kencana, Rancaekek.

The houses are used as a place of worship for the congregation of the house church.

At first, the islamic mass went to two house churches at Lotus Raya street No. 57 and asked the congregation disbanded. The church was finally evacuated from the two house churches.

church congregation wept

At the urging of the FPI and GARIS (Islamic organizations), about 95 house church congregations evacuated from two house churches in Lotus Raya Street No. 57, Rancaekek.

The congregation majority are the mothers, they were taken out of the house with police escorts. Some church ladies wept, they cry why in this democration country, we can't build a house of worship/a church to worship GOD. Walking under police protection, they were seen shedding tears.

Some congregations choose to back to their homes, while other congregations gathered patch not far from the house churches where they worship. Meanwhile, hundreds of Islamic mass from FPI and GARIS still hold on site.