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A court in Sahiwal, Punjab, Pakistan sentences a Christian man to death for blasphemy against Muslims on social media after anti-Christian mobs burned down dozens of homes and churches in Jaranwala, Punjab, in August 2023.
2024-07-1

The death toll from landslides caused by torrential rain in Tana Toraja, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, increases to 20, after the last missing people are found dead.
2024-04-15

A court in Multan, Punjab, Pakistan, sentences university professor Junaid Hafeez to death for blasphemy – verbal and on Facebook.
2019-12-21

Ferry MV "KM Lestari Maju" sinks while "en route" to Pamatata in Selayar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, with 48 vehicles and 139 passengers on board. At least 12 fatalities are reported.
2018-07-3

Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, the Christian Governor of the Indonesian capital Jakarta, will face prosecution for blasphemy.
2016-12-27

Approximately 200,000 Muslims protest in the Indonesian capital Jakarta against the Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama for alleged blasphemy. This is the second mass protest in a month against the minority Christian governor.
2016-12-2

Gunmen kidnap a Scottish man working for a British energy company in the Indonesian province of Aceh.
2013-06-12

The social network Facebook files for an initial public offering.
2012-02-1

An Indonesian court upholds a 1965 blasphemy law which permits punishment for people or organisations that "distort" the orthodoxies of six officially recognised religions — Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Catholicism, Protestantism and Confucianism — and is criticized as a blow to permitting religious freedom.
2010-04-20