BY Ian Dunn | August 29 | 
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Congregation stops suicide bombing at Indonesian Church
A teenager ‘obsessed’ with Islamic State was arrested yesterday in Indonesia after he attempted to attack a Catholic church.
The 17-year old man attempted to hit the priest with an axe and detonate a home-made bomb during the service at St Joseph’s in Medan in Northern Sumatra, (above) but he was restrained by parishioners.
There were no significant casualties but the priest sustained only minor injuries when the young man confronted him.
Following the attack, police identified the suspect as 17-year old Ivan Armadi, who carried a backpack with the message ‘I love al-Baghdadi’ referring to the IS leader.
The young man is still under interrogation and police have seized bomb-making materials from his home, suggesting that he learned to assemble a bomb through online research.
Following this attempted attack, Indonesian authorities are ‘increasingly worried; that IS will encourage a new generation of jihadists in the Muslim-majority country.
The country experienced its first IS-linked attack this January, when four people were killed during a gun and bomb assault.
Indonesian authorities claim that there are hundreds of IS sympathisers in the country, which has the world’s largest Muslim-majority.
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