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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Wednesday urged political leaders in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, to guard against religious extremism, which he said distorted ...

At 282 million people Indonesia is the largest Muslim majority nation in the world and fourth largest in population. It is a democratic republic and as such it protects its religious minorities. In ...

On Christmas Eve 22 years ago, jihadist terrorists planted bombs at churches in cities across Indonesia, killing 18 people. Every Christmas since then, members of the country’s largest Muslim group, ...