The youth association attached to the Thumpamon diocese of the Jacobite Syrian Church has organised a special candlelight prayer for world peace and to condemn the attack on children in different parts of the world at the St Elias School at Manjanikkara on Friday.
As many as 200 schoolchildren carrying live candles took part in the prayer.
Youhanon Mar Milithios, Metropolitan of the Thumpamon diocese of the Church, led the prayer after handing over live candles to the children. The Metropolitan said tens of thousands of children were killed in war in the Western and the Middle East countries over the past few years.
He said the world should take the initiative to bring an end to the killing of the hapless children in war and other forms of violence.
Recent attack
The Metropolitan also condemned the recent attack on the head of the Syrian Orthodox Church and Patriarch of Antioch and all the East, Ignatius Aphrem-II, in Syria on Monday.
The Patriarch had a narrow escape when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a function by him in Syria. Fr Elias George, school manager; Binu Vazhamuttom, Bibin Thomas, and Shibu Vallicaud, youth association leaders; also spoke.
