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Camelia Pasandaran | December 16, 2011

A statue of Mary, the mother of Jesus, in a cave sacred to many millions of Indonesian Catholics has been beheaded less than ten days before Christmas, a senior church official said on Friday. (Photo courtesy of Sesawi.net) A statue of Mary, the mother of Jesus, in a cave sacred to many millions of Indonesian Catholics has been beheaded less than ten days before Christmas, a senior church official said on Friday. (Photo courtesy of Sesawi.net)
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Rushadee
7:54am Dec 23, 2011

stupid is as stupid does

TGIF
1:23am Dec 21, 2011

Valkyrie...Thanks for your religion 101.

SG86
11:14am Dec 19, 2011

So a statue was beheaded oh no! I mean it's not like another one can't be made and placed in the same spot. It's going to take allot more than a little childish attention seeking act of vandalism (not terrorism) to ruin the Christmas spirit for us Christians and Catholics. Living here we expect this kind of stupid behaviour off uneducated idiots but shame for him we aren't easy to provoke. Now everyone stop comparing religions and bitching about Muslims just because some fool did this. Merry Christmas everyone :) Peace be with you all.

Valkyrie
10:32am Dec 18, 2011

TGIF...

Do you also find it very odd that Muslims acknowledge the existence of Jesus and recognize Him as a prophet.

The prophecies and Biblical reports contained in the Old Testament and the epistles written by the Disciples existed long before the Holy Koran was written.

On the day of Ascension, Jesus went body and soul up to Heaven and instructed His disciples to go spread the Gospel.

You will also observe that He gave them the ability to "speak in tongues." My interpretation of "tongues" is language.

Was that the beginning?

What followed thereafter can be read in Paul's 14 epistles.


Valkyrie
5:59am Dec 18, 2011

Guys....

Please! We do not know the identity of the person/s who did this ugly act.

I am just as angry as you all are but we should avoid drawing premature conclusions predicating our assumptions on the "obvious."


A statue of Mary, the mother of Jesus, in a cave sacred to many millions of Indonesian Catholics has been beheaded less than ten days before Christmas, a senior church official said on Friday.

Pastor Antonius Benny Susetyo, executive secretary of the Commission of the Indonesian Bishops Conference, told the Jakarta Globe that a person pretending to be a pilgrim infiltrated Goa Maria Sendang Pawitra (Maria’s Cave of the Holy Waters) in Tawangmangu, Central Java, on Wednesday night and beheaded the Madonna.

Benny said the vandal also removed a sacred cross measuring one-and-a-half meters in width and destroyed a number of other smaller statues and a holy water container.

Police have launched an investigation.

“I believe this an attempted provocation as Christmas celebrations approach,” Benny said. “We call on the Catholic community in Indonesia not to be provoked and trust in the police to resolve the case.”

Benny said that prior to the attack there had been no problems between the pilgrims that visited the cave and local people.

He said the relationship was mutually beneficial.

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