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Indonesia kicks off COVID-19 vaccination drive President Widodo and religious leaders become the country's first recipients of Chinese-made shot Indonesian President Joko Widodo (center) becomes the first recipient of the COVID-19 vaccine at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta on Jan. 13. (Photo: courtesy of Humas Sekretaris Kabinet/Jay) Didacus Prajojo, a 53-year-old Catholic doctor, was ready to receive his first COVID-19 vaccine dose after getting a notification via a text message from the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. The father of three, who works at the C...

Indonesian Catholics mourn death of Old Testament expert Father Berthold Pareira spent much of his life as an educator at Widya Sasana School of Philosophy and Theology Father Berthold Anton Pareira was widely known as an expert on the Old Testament. (Photo: Screenshot of a livestreamed prayer for Father Pareira’s soul on YouTube)  Catholics in Indonesia are mourning the death of an 81-year-old Carmelite priest who was widely known as an expert on the Old Testament. Father Berthold Anton Pareira died of a heart attack on Jan. 8 at the Catholic-run Panti Waluya Hospital in Malang...

Building Understanding Between Muslims, Christians, and Jews Through Education The Media Line Staff 12/18/2020 Translations available in Arabic, English, and Indonesian The webinar will look at how we can build mutual understanding and respect between Muslims, Christians, and Jews as an Abrahamic family through education, especially through primary and secondary schools. How they learn to affirm commonalities and respect differences can help them appreciate and relate to the diversity in the broader society. Such education is urgently needed nowadays where Islamophobia, antisemitism, and o...

Young girls in Saudi Arabia play basketball. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) There has been a notably reduction of anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist content in Saudi Arabian textbooks for the coming school year, a Jerusalem-based monitoring group found in a report released Tuesday. The report came amid recent talk of possible normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia, as part of a regional shift that has seen Israel agree to open ties with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco. Last week, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner said that normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia ...