Hail Mary, Full of Tarpaulin

The putting of a shroud over a statue of Mother Mary in Kulon Progo was initiated at the insistence of a community organization with a track record of intolerance.

Raymundus Rikang

April 3, 2023

WEARING green fatigues and a red beret, Muhammad Aris Faturrachman headed for the house of prayer at Degolan village in Kulon Progo regency, Yogyakarta, on Saturday midday, March 11. With four colleagues, the field coordinator of the United Development Party (PPP) Taskforce, who is also a member of the Ka’bah Youth Movement (GPK), demanded the caretaker of the prayer hall to take down the six-meter tall statue of Mary, Mother of Christ, at

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