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Thursday, May 8, 2025

PAWI denounces vandalism, theft at places of worship

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943 days ago
20221007
The interior of Kali Temple which was vandilised in Carli Bay.

The interior of Kali Temple which was vandilised in Carli Bay.

SHASTRI BOODAN

The Pen­te­costal As­sem­blies of the West In­dies (PAWI) says it is sad­dened and ap­palled by the re­cent acts of theft and van­dal­ism at var­i­ous places of wor­ship through­out Trinidad and To­ba­go.

In a state­ment yes­ter­day, PAWI said, “These cow­ard­ly acts vi­o­late the rights of per­sons across the re­li­gious spec­trum in Trinidad and To­ba­go, and threat­ens our peace­ful ex­is­tence and tol­er­ance for each oth­er.

“PAWI un­re­served­ly de­nounces such acts, not on­ly as crimes against the var­i­ous re­li­gious bod­ies, but against the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go.”

PAWI added with­in the re­cent past, mem­ber-church­es of PAWI have al­so suf­fered at­tacks, both in Trinidad and in To­ba­go, where church­es were bro­ken in­to, ran­sacked and items of val­ue stolen.

PAWI said it joins in sol­i­dar­i­ty with oth­er re­li­gious bod­ies across Trinidad and To­ba­go in con­demn­ing any act of vi­o­la­tion and des­e­cra­tion against the peo­ple of this na­tion.

“We con­tin­ue to lend our prayer­ful sup­port to the law en­force­ment agen­cies in bring­ing the per­pe­tra­tors to jus­tice. Mem­bers of our or­gan­i­sa­tion are in no way in­struct­ed, di­rect­ed, or in­cit­ed to per­form any such acts, and we cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly re­nounce, and dis­tance our­selves from such be­hav­iours.”

For this year alone, there have been sev­er­al and fre­quent at­tacks of sac­ri­lege at var­i­ous places of wor­ship, in­clud­ing Hin­du tem­ples, Mus­lim mosques and even Chris­t­ian church­es like the St Fran­cis Ro­man Catholic Church and St John’s An­gli­can Church.


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