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As Pope Francis prepares to visit Indonesia, the founding superior of a monastery in Java shares what life is like for Catholics in a majority-Muslim country.
When Sister Martha Driscoll and nine other Cistercian nuns landed on the Indonesian island of Java in 1987, they were welcomed by the local Catholic and Muslim communities — and by some neighborhood reptiles.
The sisters’ new monastery was still under construction in the foothills of one of the east Asian island’s many volcanoes, nestled in the Indonesian rainforest just over half a mile from the nearest village.
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When Sister Martha Driscoll and nine other Cistercian nuns landed on the Indonesian island of Java in 1987, they were welcomed by the local Catholic and Muslim communities — and by some neighborhood reptiles.
The sisters’ new monastery was still under construction in the foothills of one of the east Asian island’s many volcanoes, nestled in the Indonesian rainforest just over half a mile from the nearest village.
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Catholic monastery has become part of Muslim Indonesia community
Sister Martha Driscoll, the founding superior of a monastery in Java, shares what life is like for Catholics in the majority-Muslim country of Indonesia.