46 members of a Christian denomination were on ill-fated AirAsia flight

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46 members of a Christian denomination were on ill-fated AirAsia flight

Surabaya, Indonesia (CNN) -- The world's fourth-most populated country, Indonesia has about 250 million people. Any of them might have boarded AirAsia Flight QZ8501, never to come home.

Seven crew members and 155 passengers were aboard -- almost one-third from the same Christian denomination.

There was no single reason that members of Mawar Sharon, a Protestant faith with about 45,000 members around Indonesia, got on the AirAsia Airbus plane Sunday, beyond a common desire to get to Singapore in time for New Year's Eve. They weren't heading to one event. They didn't all necessarily know one another, having attended services at different churches mostly around Surabaya, the Indonesian city where the commercial airliner took off.