Communal clashes in Kishanbagh, Hyderabad: Demand by Interfaith Forum for Judicial Enquiry : COVA

Condemnation of Communal Violence in Sikh Chawni: Demand by Interfaith Forum for Judicial Enquiry : COVA

The members of Interfaith Forum strongly condemn the incidence of violence in Kishan Bagh between the Sikh and the Muslim communities in the morning of 14th May 2014.
It is very unfortunate that some vested interests seemed to have succeeded in their aim to bring Muslims and Sikhs at loggerheads by damaging Sikh religious flag at Sikh Chowni, Kishan Bagh, Hyderabad in the intervening night of 13-14 May 2014. In retaliation, it is reported that innocent passerby was lethally attacked in morning hours of 14th May 2014. continue reading indtoday.com

Interfaith Forum Members:

Nanak Singh Nishter, Director, International Sikh Centrefor Interfaith Relations; and President, COVA. Hyderabad

Jain Ratan Surender Luniya, President, Jain Teerth Kulpak, Sultan Bazar, Hyderabad.

Rev. Fr. Anthoniraj Thumma, Executive Secretary, ANDHRA PRADESH BISHOPS’ COUNCIL, Hyderabad.

Mazher Hussain, Executive Director, COVA 

Mr. M. Veda Kumar, President,Forum For Better Hyderabad

Muneeruddin Mujahid, President, Tehreek Khair e Ummah

Omim Debara, Social Activist.

Khalid Rasool Khan, President, All IndiaMuslim Sangham, Hyderabad.

Bro. Varghese Theckanath s.g. Director, Montfort Social Institute (MSI), Hyderabad.

  

Ven.K. Sangha Rakshita Mahathera, Chairman & Chief Abbot. Ananda Budha Vihar Trust, Mahindra Hills,Secunderabad.26

Mohammed Turab, Convener, Interfaith Forum

Shaik Prof. Anwar Khan, Retd. Principal, Anwar-Ul-Uloom College, Hyderabad                                                                         

Moulana Hamid Shuttari, President, Sunni Millat Board 

Mohd Afzal Ali, General Secretary,State Minority Cell, EDP

 

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• Hyderabad clashes, Times of India
• Communal clashes in Kishanbagh; 3 killed in police firing, The Hindu

Religious leaders condone acts of violence in the name of religion

April 11, 2012, religiousindia.com
A social need and religious responsibility of all to prevent violence in all forms and strive for integration and harmony amongst all sections of society.

In response to the communal violence that took place in Hyderabad on Sunday after communal clashes broke out following the desecration of a place of worship at Madannapet, resulting in heavy stone-pelting and brick batting, a group of religious leaders (COVA = Confederation of Voluntary Associations) including Bro. Varghese SG of MSI came together for a Press Conference and issued a press statement that was reported in the papers.

... Religious Leaders of all Faiths to Jointly Cleanse / Repair Any Desecrated Places of Worship in AP continue reading

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Inter Faith Forum to clean places of worship

Interfaith relations - Two Narratives One Country, by SYED ALI MUJTABA SYED for The Ground Report India

‘Hyderabad still brings a rush of emotions’- Hindustan Times

Shyam Benegal
"Like everyone else, I have many identities. But there is one that I love to flaunt. Of being a Chitrapur Saraswat. I cannot advance a single convincing reason why, except that it gives me the somewhat harmless and naïve pleasure of seeming exclusive. The census of the community taken in 2001 says that we are all of 22,000 in the whole wide world, i.e. much less than the Parsis. We are, I have been assured, not quite as endangered as the Veddas, Jarawas or the Todas. Nevertheless, a micro minority in a country of considerably more than a billion. The very idea of being part of such a tiny and exclusive community gives me a great high. They have their own home language; one of the many dialects of Konkani. To make the Konkani we speak specially exclusive, we dispense with the term Konkani and call it ‘our language’ or ‘our tongue’. Nothing could be more exclusive than that." continue reading

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