Team Herald
PANJIM: Churches across Goa will hold prayers for peace on Sunday. Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao has also urged members of other communities to join the prayers.
The call for prayers comes following ‘escalation of tension along our borders’ and has been prompted the President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India.
Ferrao said peace has always figured amongst humanity’s highest values, whether it is seen as absence of conflict or as an abiding state of harmony and tranquility. “Ironically, it is one of the most eluding goods in today’s society,” he said.
The fragile peace along the Indian border with neighbouring Pakistan is regularly disturbed by exchange of fire and other forms of violence, revealing a simmering state of hostility and suspicion between two countries that otherwise share linguistic, cultural, geographical and even economic links, he added.
