Ahmadiyah mosque burned as protests grow

A group calling itself the Jamaah Al Mubalighin Communication Forum burned down a mosque belonging to the “deviant” Ahmadiyah sect in Parakan Salak village in Sukabumi regency, West Java, early Monday.
Sukabumi Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Gunthor Ghafar told The Jakarta Post the incident began when the forum members met Sunday for a Koran reading [...]

Rise in global food prices a blessing for Indonesia: President

Wahyoe Boediwardhana ,  The Jakarta Post ,  Pasuruan, East Java   |  Mon, 04/28/2008 11:42 AM  |  Headlines
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told the Nahdatul Ulama youth wing Ansor on Sunday that Indonesia could benefit from the rise in global food prices.
“In my spiritual contemplation a few days back with friends in Yogyakarta, I arrived at [...]

Benedict XVI, about the power of prayer

“I am especially grateful to all who have been praying for the success of the visit, since prayer is the most important element of all,” he said. “Dear friends, I say this because I am convinced that without the power of prayer, without that intimate union with the Lord, our human endeavors would achieve very [...]

Benedict XVI and Future Hope

Pope  Benedict XVI will visits USA on April 15-20, 2008. Benedict XVI will disembark with a message to strengthen the faith, hope and love of U.S. Catholics, said one of the nation’s bishops.
“He is not just another player in a global game of power politics,” Bishop Wenski continued. “He is not a politician but the [...]

Church in France Receives Converts From Islam

Daily Tells of Difficulties They Face
PARIS, APRIL 7, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Between 150 and 200 Muslims convert to Catholicism each year in France, many of them the children of mixed marriages, reported a French daily.
According to the April 2 edition of Le Monde, the topic has been little discussed in recent years. But the Church is [...]

Responses to ‘Fitna’ film

Geert Wilders is a die-hard masochist who enjoys dispensing “Dutch treat”.
NENNETH CHEN
Jakarta
Muslims only wonder why Wilders disrupts the quiet of others while he is never interrupted. I think he is just seeking fame for himself by sacrificing the peace. Congratulation, Wilders. See you in hell.
HM SABAR SS PRAYA
Jakarta
In fact the protests against the anti-Islam film [...]

MAKING THE LIFE WORTH

By Pormadi Simbolon, Jakarta
Experiences are part of our daily life. They give us how to learn and to live the life. They tell us how to face our daily problem. Everything that we have coming from experiences in our life.
Nowadays, life is complex. The problem in front of us is more complex too. But how [...]

Questioning the self-integrity of apparatus of the republic

 By Pormadi Simbolon, Jakarta
It is interesting to see many issues of our country problems. They are palpable progress in the areas of government corruption, supremacy of law, education, poverty, social and economic injustice, unemployment, displaced person about five years untill now. They are the hardships that life bring to people.
The people of Indonesia are entitled [...]

World food prices soar as a wealthier Asia consumes more

  By Russell Blinch and Brian Love
  Reuters
  Monday, March 31, 2008

  WASHINGTON: Food prices are soaring; a wealthier Asia is demanding better food and farmers cannot keep up. In short, the world faces a food crisis and in some places it is already boiling over.

Around the globe, people are protesting and governments are responding [...]