ICC Note: Three Indonesian churches suffered bombing attacks simultaneously during their Sunday service. A group of suicide bombers launched the attack targeting Christians for being a minority and left many victims dead while several others injured or vulnerable.

5/26/2018 Indonesia (Christianity Today) – Suicide bombers launched coordinated attacks on three Indonesian churches during worship services this morning, leaving more than a dozen people dead and at least 40 more injured in a series of bloody blasts that horrified the country’s Christian minority and Muslim majority alike.

Diponegoro Indonesian Christian Church (GKI), Surabaya Center Pentecostal Church, and Santa Maria Tak Bercela Catholic Church—all in Surabaya, the second-largest city in the island-chain nation—suffered bombings carried out by six members of the same family, who are believed to be affiliated with Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), an Indonesian terrorist cell aligned with ISIS.

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