Charles Patrick Edward Burrows: Cilacap's 'Kyai' Priest
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
FATHER Carolus made the news last year, when a number of foreigners convicted of drug crimes were executed on Nusa Kambangan Island. Charles Patrick Edward Burrowsa priest known among locals as Romo (Father) Carolushad accompanied the inmates, among others Brazilian Rodrigo Gularte and Nigerian Okwudili Oyatanze, and watched them until the end.
"Usually, I open the Bible and read the following verse to death row inmates, 'Today you will be with me in paradise', so that they can die in dignity," the 73-year-old priest explained, in an interview last December.
FATHER Carolus made the news last year, when a number of foreigners convicted of drug crimes were executed on Nusa Kambangan Island. Charles Patrick Edward Burrowsa priest known among locals as Romo (Father) Carolushad accompanied the inmates, among others Brazilian Rodrigo Gularte and Nigerian Okwudili Oyatanze, and watched them until the end.
"Usually, I open the Bible and read the following verse to death row inmates, 'Today you will be with me
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