MBC prays for peace
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, June 25 2023:
The Manipur Baptist Convention Centre Church Imphal held a fasting and mass prayer session to restore normalcy and bring peace in Manipur today.
MBC Centre Church Pastor Rev Zuankamang Daimai, general secretary Rev K Losii Mao and Swellinghope Chiru led the fast and the prayer.
The congregation shared the grief and pain of the victims of the present crisis and prayed for their rehabilitation and peace.
Speakers at the event, "A day of fasting and prayer", said the unfortunate violence that broke out on May 3 has claimed lives of several people and displaced thousands of people from their homes.
Hundreds of houses have been burnt and the people who have been displaced are staying at relief camps across the State, the speakers said praying for their rehabilitation and safe return to their native places and homes once the conflict ends.
Praying for an end to the conflict and to avoid recurrence of similar incidents in the future, they called on all political leaders, civil society organisations, leaders of Churches and security forces to bring peace and protect the lives and properties of the people.
The speakers stressed that the blockade imposed on the National Highway amid the present crisis is causing hardships to all sections of the people on all fronts.
The blockade has hit the transport, essential services and health sector.
There is shortage of medicine and people are facing inconveniences in accessing healthcare services at hospitals and health centres, they said praying for a solution that would lift the blockade.