Members of the GKI Yasmin congregration failed to hold Christmas mass in their own church on Sunday, as hard-liners staged a rally to protest any religious activities inside the shuttered church.



The parishioners had previously insisted on celebrating Christmas inside or near the church, defying warnings from the Bogor administration and intelligence officials that it would be dangerous to do so.



The church’s members, who had been ordered to hold their Christmas ceremony at a rented building nearby, managed to get close to the church but was afforded no opportunity to conduct the mass there.



Hundreds of officers from the Bogor Police and the Public Order Agency closed access to the church on Jl. KH Muhammad Nuh, while a group of Muslim hard-liners staged a rowdy rally, forcing the churchgoers to leave the area.



Dozens of members of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU)...