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Updated - April 29, 2019 09:42 am IST - Hyderabad
Hyderabad, Telangana, 28-04-2019: Members of the Muslim community in Hyderabad offering flowers to Christians attending Sunday prayer at St George's Church at Abids on Sunday. This gesture was organized by Muslim community leaders to express their solidarity with Christians across globe following the recent terror attacks in Sri Lanka where hundreds of Christians were killed on Easter Day. Muslims under the leadership of Muslim scholar MirzaYawar Baig attended the Sunday prayers at the St. George's Church to show solidarity. They were carrying placards with messages of peace. Photo: K.V.S. Giri / The Hindu
On Sunday morning, parishioners at the St George’s Church in Abids in Hyderabad opened their doors to Muslim brethren who arrived with yellow roses and placards bearing messages of peace.
“In solidarity with Sri Lanka terror victims”, “We condemn the terror attack in Sri Lanka’, and ‘We stand for peace’, were some of the messages held aloft by men and women who walked from St Joseph’s Cathedral to St George’s Church.
“We want to show solidarity with the Christian community in their hour of grief. This is the only way we can keep terrorism at bay. Terrorists who are committing these horrible acts don’t belong to any faith,” said Mirza Yawar Baig of Mahmood Habib Mosque, Banjara Hills, who addressed the parishioners.
“The idea to show solidarity was a spontaneous one. We spoke with the priest here who welcomed our message. I am coming back here after 59 years,” said Mr. Baig, who studied in Grammar School near the church.
“We assembled in the morning at the St Joseph’s Cathedral, and from there we walked to this church and sat with the parishioners,” said Iqbal Jaweed of Mecca Masjid Society. About 150 people including women, children and youngsters participated in the march and later observed the service.
“A few days ago, there was an attack at a mosque in New Zealand and last Sunday it was a church in Sri Lanka; there has been a terrorist attack at a Synagogue in the US too. We are a diverse society. We have to stand together to fight this,” said Katherine Hadda, the US Consul General in Hyderabad.
While the terrorists struck at a mosque in New Zealand on a Friday considered holy by Muslims, last Sunday’s attack on a church was on Easter, and the attack in San Diego was on the last day of Passover.
“We liked the message of peace and brotherhood brought by these people. Terrorists who are killing people are acting alone and have no faith. Islam has a message of peace which is being perverted by the terrorists,” said Rev. Immanuel of St George’s Church.
Published - April 29, 2019 12:17 am IST
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