Source: Praying for Indonesia, February 3, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A West Sumatra high school punished Christian students for refusing to wear a hijab during online classes. Parental outcry led to a ruling of unacceptable religious intolerance from the Education and Culture minister, and an apology from the high school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Praise God this incident for the firm action by the Education Minister. Pray that this results in addressing general intolerance of Christians and other minorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Published on Facebook<\/a>. The intersection of dress codes and online schooling got us thinking. But it also spurred a legal ruling: See Indonesia Bans Forced Religious Attire in Schools<\/a> (BBC) and a longer article from Al Jazeera<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also from Indonesia: Some missionaries are looking for 1,000 daily prayer partners to intercede for the people group they hope to reach. See Pray for the Banjar<\/a>. There are too many similar efforts for us to curate them all, but if you have a vested interest in a specific group, look\/ask around to see if there\u2019s a prayer campaign you might want to join.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Praying for Indonesia, February 3, 2021 A West Sumatra high school punished Christian students for refusing to wear a hijab during online classes. Parental outcry led to a ruling of unacceptable religious intolerance from the Education and Culture minister, and an apology from the high school. Praise God this incident for the firm action … Continue reading INDONESIA: Apology to Christian Students Punished for Not Wearing Hijab in Virtual Class<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9924,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9923\/revisions\/9924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}