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Kevin SOESAMTO, Petitioner v. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF the UNITED STATES, Respondent.
    No. 06-2217.
    United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
    Submitted Under Third Circuit LAR 34.1(a) Feb. 5, 2008.
    Filed: March 4, 2008.
    
      Ephraim T. Mella, Philadelphia, PA, for Petitioner.
    Thankful T. Vanderstar, Janice K. Red-fern, United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
    Before: MCKEE and AMBRO, Circuit Judges, and IRENAS, District Judge.
    
      
       Honorable Joseph E. Irenas, Senior District Judge for the District of New Jersey, sitting by designation.
    
   OPINION

AMBRO, Circuit Judge.

Kevin Soesamto petitions for review of a final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals that affirmed his removal to Indonesia. We deny the petition.

Soesamto, an ethnically Chinese Christian, recounts two experiences in Indonesia in support of his application. First, he alleges that while he was in church, a group of Muslim people gathered outside, shouting, “Come out! We will burn this church!” When no one came out, the Muslims partially destroyed the church’s garden and then scattered. Second, Soesamto alleges that after he was involved in a motorcycle accident, a group of native Indonesians beat him while shouting ethnic slurs. Soesamto claims that, as a result of these experiences, he suffers from Posh-Traumatic Stress Syndrome.

We lack jurisdiction to review the Board of Immigration Appeals’ conclusion that Soesamto’s asylum application was filed out of time. See 8 U.S.C. § 1158(a)(3); Sukwanputra v. Gonzales, 434 F.3d 627, 634-35 (3d Cir.2006). Fur-

ther, we cannot disturb the Board of Immigration Appeals’ and the Immigration Judge’s conclusions that Soesamto is not entitled to withholding of removal or relief under the Convention Against Torture. We review these claims under a deferential substantial evidence standard under which agency findings “must be upheld unless the evidence not only supports a contrary conclusion, but compels it.” Abdille v. Ashcroft, 242 F.3d 477, 483-84 (3d Cir. 2001). The evidence here does not compel a conclusion that Soesamto has suffered past persecution or torture, see Lie v. Ashcroft, 396 F.3d 530, 536 (3d Cir.2005), nor a conclusion that it is more likely than not that he will be persecuted or tortured if returned to Indonesia, see id. at 537-38.

Accordingly, we deny the petition for review.