Over 3,500 people, mostly Catholics, joined a charity run organized by Indonesia’s Jakarta Archdiocese to raise money to build churches in various parts of the country.
Jakarta has declared 2018 the “Year of Unity.”
The “Run4U” campaign on July 29, one of a number of Church-led fund-raising runs in recent years, offered people the chance to test themselves with a 2.5-kilometre walk or a more gruelling 5k run in Tangerang, a city in Banten province some 25km from Jakarta.
Participants included priests, nuns, seminarians, elderly and young and people from other religions. “Our main purpose is to raise money to help out with the construction of several churches [that are in need of financial support],” Paskah Widarani, one of the organizers, told ucanews.com.
“Those parishes were chosen as they really need our help right now,” said Widarani.
