Equmeniakyrkan, Pressmeddelande
Kyrkor fördömer attack i Pakistan
Svenska kyrkan och Equmeniakyrkan ger i ett gemensamt uttalande sitt djupa stöd till Pakistans kristna efter självmordsattacken i Peshawar. Kyrkorna har en delegation som besöker Pakistan och uttrycker gemensamt sin avsky och hopp om ett resolut agerande.
Publicerat 24 september, 2013
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Churches in Sweden condemns the suicide attacks
on All Saints’ Church, Peshawar, Pakistan
On behalf of the Bishops’ Conference of the Church of Sweden[1] and the Uniting Church in Sweden[2], the archbishop of Uppsala, Anders Wejryd, and the president of the Uniting Church in Sweden, Lasse Svensson, expresses the sense of shock and horror that has filled us all on hearing about the suicide attack in Peshawar, carried out during Sunday worship 22nd of September. Both churches entertains close links with Church of Pakistan. Representatives of the Church of Pakistan visited Uppsala a year ago and presently a Swedish ecumenical delegation is on tour in Pakistan.
The bishops’ conference of the Church of Sweden wants to express it’s solidarity with the families of those killed and injured in this atrocious act, and with fellow Christians of all denominations in Pakistan. The bishops also strongly urge the Pakistani authorities to take swift measures to ensure that the perpetrators behind Sunday’s mass killing are apprehended, and to take action against those responsible for the increasing religious intolerance.
Monday 23d of September 2013
On behalf of the Church of Sweden
Bishops’ Conference
Anders Wejryd
Archbishop of Uppsala
On behalf of the Executive leadership of
the Uniting Church in Sweden
Lasse Svensson
President of the Uniting Church in Sweden
[1] The Church of Sweden is an Evangelical-Lutheran Church to which app 65 % of the inhabitants of Sweden belong; the bishops’ conference comprises 13 bishops together with the archbishop, residing in Uppsala.
[2] The Baptist, the Methodist and the Covenant Churches form since 2012 the Uniting Church in Sweden.
