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With flickering candles and the sound of organs, hundreds of Catholics held a muted Christmas Eve mass in Indonesia’s Aceh province, the only one under ultraconservative Islamic law in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation. Christmas decorations are not allowed on the streets of Aceh — the only Indonesian province to implement strict Sharia law […]
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Catholics hold muted Christmas mass in Indonesia’s Sharia stronghold
AFP
10:24
With flickering candles and the sound of organs, hundreds of Catholics held a muted Christmas Eve mass in Indonesia’s Aceh province, the only one under ultraconservative Islamic law in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation. Christmas decorations are not allowed on the streets of Aceh — the only Indonesian province to implement strict Sharia law
