Indonesia Medan Cries mgr.datubara, the First Face of the Church Among the Bataks

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First priest and then also first bishop from this ethnic group of Northern Sumatra, died at the age of 91. He led the archdiocese for 33 years from 1976 to 2009, raising a deeply inculturated Catholic community. Friend and hope of the poor, already twenty years ago he was very attentive to the environmental issue.