Emma Howlett

IDOP: CSW: “We’re standing with our persecuted family”

19 October 2018And yet, when Christian Solidarity Worldwide visited them earlier this year, the church leaders stressed that all their congregations wanted was peace and prayer. “We must love others, we forgive the attackers, we do not want revenge,” Father Aloysius Widyawan told us when we went to offer solidarity and support. He shared that the message from his parishioners, again and again, was one of forgiveness. Meanwhile, the mother of two Catholic boys who died, aged eight and 12, said just two days…