PAPUA (muslims): PRIEST KILLED, 22 CHURCHES CLOSE (50,000 run to the mountains) Papua
November 2004
Excerpt:
on 14 September, Kopassus killed a clergyman, the Reverend Eleesa Tabuni, in Mulia. Then troops in a helicopter fired on Papuans who were gathering food in a garden, killing two of them. 'Twenty-two churches empty now,' says Yoman. 'No people. People [estimated at 50,000 – Rumbiak] run to the mountains. Now they need food, yeah? Now, they need food.'
PRESSURE ON TATARSTAN PROTESTANTS (Muslim Republic of Tatarstan)Tatarstan
November 2004
Excerpt:
Felix Corley of Forum 18 News Service writes that Rafis Nabiullin, a Tatar pastor of a small Evangelical church in the town of Aznakayevo in the mainly Muslim-populated republic of Tatarstan, has complained of threats from a local FSB security service officer to halt the church's activity and drive him out of the town.