Attack on X'ians: call for peace meet

By Our Staff Reporter

PATHANAMTHITTA, JULY 26.The Kerala Pentecostal Council (KPC) State executive has urged the Prime Minister, Mr. A. B. Vajpayee, to take the initiative in convening a meeting of leaders of the Christian community and the Hindu community to facilitate a dialogue between them in the wake of increasing instances of attacks on Christians in different parts of the country.

In a statement issued here today, the KPC chairman, Pastor Jose Peter, said that both the Central and State Governments should create an atmosphere for Christians in the country to carry out evangelistic works in a peaceful manner.

Various Christian churches in India have been carrying out their evangelistic works in a peaceful way without hurting the religious sentiments of others during the past several years, the KPC chairman said.

The resolution, adopted at the KPC executive committee meeting the other day, also urged the Union Government to ban all outfits whose activities were found detrimental as well as dangerous to the national spirit and communal harmony prevailing in the country.

The meeting condemned those organisations which allegedly were unleashing violence against Christians with financial patronage from certain foreign hands.

The KPC president appreciated the Chief Ministers of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh for their quick and timely action that led to the arrest of the anti-national elements who master-minded the blasts in a few churches there.

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