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Local Anglicans offer prayers for bombing victims in Pakistan

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AP Photo/Mohammad SajjadPeople gather at the site of suicide attack on a church in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013. A suicide bomb attack on a historic church in northwestern Pakistan killed scores of people Sunday, officials said, in one of the worst assaults on the country’s Christian minority in years.

The bombing on Sunday of an Anglican Church in the troubled Pakistani city of Peshawar has prompted Bermuda’s Anglican leadership to call for prayers and declare their solidarity against terrorism.Bishop of Bermuda Nick Dill has written to Humphrey S Peters, Bishop of Peshawar expressing support for the congregation and has asked if there are ways the Anglican Church here can help in rebuilding lives.On Sunday, as worshippers finished service, two suicide bombers detonated outside All Saints Church, which was dedicated in 1883 and is part of the diocese of Peshawar.Eighty-five people were killed, the majority being children, women and the elderly, in the worst ever attack in Pakistan.Bishop Nick has urged all Anglicans in Bermuda to pray for their “sisters and brothers” of All Saints and their priest, Rev Ijaz Gill.“The Anglican Church of Bermuda wants to demonstrate solidarity with the Church in Peshawar as it faces these uncertain times,” he said.Although a minority in Pakistan, Christians have generally lived in peace with their Muslim neighbours since the country was formed out of colonial India.Links to the diocese began over the past decade, first under Bishop Ewen Ratteray, who invited the then Bishop of Peshawar, Rev Mano Rumalsha to preach here.Later, Canon Keith Wassall, who served at the Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity to maintain the link.Bishop Humphrey S Peters, the Bishop of Peshawar, said: “We are grateful to all those who prayed and are praying regularly for us.“We are thankful to all those who are standing with us to raise their voices against this brutal attack.“We are thankful to all those brothers and sisters who stood with us in this difficult time and are supporting us through prayers.”Bishop Humphrey goes on to ask that the family of Christ all around the world lift them up in their prayers as they go through a very hard time.

AP Photo/Mohammad SajjadPakistanis carry coffins during the funeral of victims of a suicide attack on a church in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. Pakistani Christians denounced the deadliest attack ever in this country against members of their faith when a pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up amid hundreds of worshippers outside a historic church in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013.