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    Religious leaders condemn terrorism in North Caucasus

    ITAR-TASS News Agency
    September 9, 2004 Thursday

    MOSCOW, September 9 -- Religious leaders of all the traditional
    confessions in Russia condemn terrorism and call for safeguarding
    peace in the North Caucasus.

    The leaders of the traditional confessions practiced in the North
    Caucasus called on the believers to prevent the outbreaks of hostility
    and confrontation among the peoples of the South of Russia. This is
    said in the joint statement adopted on Thursday after the meeting in
    Yessentuki with the Russian president's envoy in the Southern Federal
    District, Vladimir Yakovlev.

    "Truly religious people will never take the road of terror; those who
    deliberately became terrorists betrayed their faith", the statement
    says. Representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church, of Islamic
    organizations, of the Armenian Apostolic Church and of Buddhists and
    Judaists condemned "the horrible crime of the capture and killing of
    hostages in Beslan, as well as the terrorist acts staged in Moscow
    and on board two passenger planes".

    The religious leaders expressed condolences to the families and
    relatives of the victims, Tass reports. The leaders of confessions
    made assurances that they will exert every effort to safeguard peace
    and security of Russia".

    Liturgies in memory of the killed hostages were conducted in all the
    Orthodox churches of the Altai territory, Tass reports. Bishop Maxim
    of Barnaul and the Altai said, specifically, that all the statements
    by terrorists about their being motivated by religious ideals are not
    just lies but also a provocation aimed to split the Russian society
    by a bloody feud.
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