Christian Persecution Project

In my 8th Grade Bible class, we talked about what Christian Persecution was across the globe. We got split into groups and were assigned a country, my country was Indonesia. I learned so much about what the country of Indonesia is like. I learned a lot about how Christians have to go into hiding because lots of people that live around them are constantly trying to hurt them. Something that really surprised me was that if you convert to Christianity, your family changes your last name and disown you because Christianity is that “horrible” to them. I read a lot of stories about Christian Persecution in Indonesia specifically, one of the stories that stood out to me the most was that a girl converted to Christianity after previously being Islamic, her brother found her and killed her just because she converted to a different religion. Something that surprised me was that only 10% of Indonesia is Christian and 87% is Islamic. In our exhibit, our visual was a small room made out of a canopy which represented a small room where Christians in Indonesia would pray and practice their faith in. Inside our canopy we had prayer request cards hanging around the room, the cards had things telling others was to pray for inside the country of Indonesia.