(ACNS) The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has…[yesterday] written to the High Commissioner of India, Mr Shiv Shankar Mukherjee, expressing his shock and outrage at the appalling atrocities in Mumbai and offering on behalf of the whole Anglican Communion prayers for those who have lost loved ones, for the injured and for all those caring for them or dealing with the ongoing siege. “People everywhere”, he said, “stand in solidarity with the innocent and in condemnation of those who would destroy innocent lives out of evil and misguided motives”.
Some of us met today for prayer, particularly about the situation in Mumbai: for the injured and traumatised, and the relatives and also for those having to deal with the situation; we also prayed for the situation in Orissa which is in many ways worse with hundreds of people killed, displaced, churches and homes burnt and rampant persecution of Christians, but has had less publicity; and also for the situation in Jos, Nigeria where a church has been burnt and Christians attacked.