NCCI Condemns Attacks on and Abduction of
Christians in the Middle-East!
The National Council of Churches in India expresses profound sorrow and
strongly condemns the continuing
abduction of Christians by the IS jihadists in North-East Syria, Iraq, Egypt
and other Middle East countries generating a terrorizing situation of violence
and death, thereby forcing people to relocate with a feeling of abandonment and
hopelessness.
We strongly denounce the continued attacks on minorities, especially the
recent attacks on churches in villages, the indiscriminate bloody annihilation
of innocent lives, and the rampant abduction that is taking place in Syria,
Iraq and other countries.
We resolutely condemn such hideous actions and stoutly challenge
the ideologies of terror and violence guided by the fundamentalist communal
misinterpretation of religious beliefs.
While we express our solidarity
with our abducted fellow believers and their grieving families and churches, we
demand the release of all the hostages.
We sincerely commit ourselves to work with all peace-loving agencies for
the rescue of the victims and for bringing peace in Middle-East Nations.
(This statement is adopted by the Executive Committee of the National
Council of Churches in India on the 27 Feb 2015 in Bangalore initiated by the
Commission on Justice, Peace and Creation).
