Post by Paddy by Grace on Sept 2, 2008 1:14:24 GMT -7
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August 13, 2008
Indonesian priest kidnapped and beaten senseless
But peacefully! "Indonesian priest kidnapped, severely beaten," by Mathias Hariyadi in AsiaNews, August 12 (thanks to Winds of Jihad):
Jakarta (AsiaNews) - Last night, Fr Benny Susetyo, secretary of the interreligious commission of the Indonesian bishops' conference, was kidnapped and severely beaten. At least three people forcibly removed him from his home in Bintaro, in southern Jakarta, took away his cell phone, and beat him.
He is now recovering at Pondok Indah hospital in Jakarta, where he has been visited by other human rights activists, like Solahudin Wahid, a promoter of interreligious dialogue and the younger brother of former president Abdurrahman Wahid.
The police of Kebayoran Lama say that "we have not conducted any investigation, as there has not been any crime reported to us". It is the first time in a long time that a Catholic priest has been kidnapped and beaten.
Fr Susetyo is also an active member of the Alliance for Nation and Religious Freedom, a group disliked by radical Muslims for its position on the problem of the Ahmadiyya (an Islamic minority group often persecuted by other Muslims)....
August 13, 2008
Indonesian priest kidnapped and beaten senseless
But peacefully! "Indonesian priest kidnapped, severely beaten," by Mathias Hariyadi in AsiaNews, August 12 (thanks to Winds of Jihad):
Jakarta (AsiaNews) - Last night, Fr Benny Susetyo, secretary of the interreligious commission of the Indonesian bishops' conference, was kidnapped and severely beaten. At least three people forcibly removed him from his home in Bintaro, in southern Jakarta, took away his cell phone, and beat him.
He is now recovering at Pondok Indah hospital in Jakarta, where he has been visited by other human rights activists, like Solahudin Wahid, a promoter of interreligious dialogue and the younger brother of former president Abdurrahman Wahid.
The police of Kebayoran Lama say that "we have not conducted any investigation, as there has not been any crime reported to us". It is the first time in a long time that a Catholic priest has been kidnapped and beaten.
Fr Susetyo is also an active member of the Alliance for Nation and Religious Freedom, a group disliked by radical Muslims for its position on the problem of the Ahmadiyya (an Islamic minority group often persecuted by other Muslims)....