Bread NEWS 19 - 'Sealed Church in Indonesia Appeals to the UN' & 'Stunning Discovery' in Ethiopia—The Garima Gospels'

Sealed Church in Bogor, Indonesia Appeals to UN   Report from: Compass Direct NEWS The Gereja Kristen Indonesia (GKI) Taman Yasmin Church in Bogor, West Java, has filed a religious discrimination appeal with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, church leaders said.   Since April 11 the congregation has held services on the roadside in front of the sealed church in stifling heat. The church pastor, the Rev. Ujang Tanusaputra, told Compass that the congregation has held Sunday services six times in front of the building that the mayor of Bogor sealed.  “We are going to continue worshipping by the roadside as part of the struggle to remove the seal,” he told Compass. ----------------------------- 'Stunning Discovery' in Ethiopia—The Garima Gospels Report from: Breaking Christian News The "incredible" Garima Gospels - supposedly the world's earliest illustrated Christian book - has been saved by the British charity, Ethiopian Heritage Fund, which located it at a remote Ethiopian monastery near Adway, in the Tigray region, at about 7,000 ft. elevation. As reported in The Daily Mail, the book is named after Abba (Father) Garima, a monk who arrived in Ethiopia from Constantinople in 494 AD.  The book was reportedly written on goat skin in the early Ethiopian language of Ge'ez, and experts believe it is also the earliest example of book binding still attached to the original pages.