Catholic students from Pamulang University (UNPAM) were threatened by Muslim extre-mists as they prepared to pray the rosary. A group of armed Mus-lim men broke into the home of a Catholic family in South Tange-rang[I] that was hosting students. Shouting threats, the attackers ordered the university students to stop the prayer activity and dis-perse as soon as possible.
It seems that the hostilities were fomented by a man called Diding. “If you perform any praying, do it in your church as we local Muslims are used to do it in our mosque; not in a resi-dential house like this,” Mr Di-ding said, according to witnesses. “A dozen UNPAM students were reciting the rosary at the home of a local Catholic,” said a political activist known as Mr A. “We were at the police’s command post until at 3 am to demand perpe-trators be held accountable for last night’s hostile deed,” Mr A told. Speaking to local media, Chief Superintendent Alvino Cahyadi said police were looking into the case after a video about the incident was posted on social media. Some female students suffered minor injuries.
A similar incident took place in 2014, when Julianus Felicianus, a Catholic, opened his home to the community near Yogyakarta to pray the rosary, an activity that many Christians engage in, in the month of May. A group of Mus-lims targeted the Catholic gather-ing and Felicianus received threats, including death threats, from several people.
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