fides.org (12.19.2017)
We must remain united and face the causes of extremism: is the appeal launched on the occasion of a special interreligious prayer vigil organized in the cathedral in Lahore in memory of the victims of the attack in a Methodist church in Quetta , capital of Beluchistan, on December 17, while the death toll has risen to 14 and 65 wounded. As Fides learns, the meeting, promoted yesterday by the National Commission for Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue, within the Catholic Episcopal Conference of Pakistan, was presided by Archbishop Sebastian Francis Shaw, at the head of the Catholic diocese of Lahore, and many Christian leaders of confessions present in Pakistan (Catholics, Anglicans, Methodists, Presbyterians, members of the Salvation Army) but also many Muslims, took part in the meeting.
