INDONESIA
UCA News
July 14, 2020
By Justin L Wejak
Two recent incidents shocked the Catholic Church in Indonesia’s eastern islands of Timor and Lembata, both in East Nusa Tenggara province.
In the Timor case, police on July 3 arrested Felix Nesi, a lay activist and fiction writer, reportedly for property destruction at Bitauni Presbytery. Nesi was angry that a priest, allegedly involved in sexual misconduct with a woman in his previous parish, was moved to a vocational school where there are many female students. He was worried that the girls at the school might become sexual victims of the priest. Nesi was a member of the local community of Bitauni.
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