Christian Teens Beheaded in Indonesia

Please don't be blind to the persecution happening in Indonesia. This is one of the saddest incidents I have heard. Please pray for the families of these 4 beautiful girls. Also, offer a prayer for peace. Pray that the Christians will not retaliate with violence, but will respond as Christ and the martyrs responded.

"In what one Indonesian human rights activist describes as the latest attack in an ongoing terror campaign against Christians of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, three teenage girls en route to school through a cocoa plantation were beheaded Saturday morning, apparently by Muslims...

Theresia Murangke, 14, and Ida Lambuaga and Alfina Yarni Sambue, both 15, were attacked one mile from Sayo village near the town of Poso, reports Indonesian human rights activist Ibrahim Buaya, who formerly lived in this volatile region of Indonesia. A fourth girl, Noviana Malewa, 14, escaped from her attackers with machete wounds to her face. Buaya reported that she is in Poso General Hospital under heavy guard. The Associated Press reported that Noviana told police the six attackers wore black shirts.

Two of the girls' heads were found near a police station five miles from the village of Poso. The head of the third was left in front of Kasiguncu village's Pentecostal Church of Indonesia (GPdI), eight miles from where the bodies were found in the cocoa plantation." (http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/144/23.0.html)

Other sources: The Jakarta Post