Local officials sealed shut a church building in West Java Province, Indonesia last Saturday, two weeks after Muslims intruded into a worship service and demanded its closure, church leaders said.
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The Indonesia that President Barack Obama knew as a child, with its culture of pluralism and constitutional protections for religious freedom, provides an important model of religious diversity. TheObama Administration should act quickly to support that tradition,and it can begin by sharply curtailing the use of rhetoric thatcarelessly describes diverse regions based on the faith of dominantgroups.