GOVERNMENT ATTACKED OVER SECURITY POLICIES
Government attacked over its handling of security policies
FREE Presbyterian ministers in Tyrone have bitterly attacked Tony Blair and Mo Mowlam over the Omagh bomb.
In a joint statement, they said the Prime Minister and Secretary of State had pursued policies which had encouraged the atrocity and others before it.
''Yesterday's murderous monsters have become today's ministers-in-waiting," they said.
Nine ministers and a Church official condemned "ecumenical propaganda" after the bombing and urged a "return to God's Word".
A Free Presbyterian Sunday School teacher, Esther Gibson, was among the 28 people killed by the bomb. Her family later discovered Esther, who was to be married next year, had already drawn up plans for her Sunday School classes this autumn.
The ministers said: "We would earnestly seek to warn the Protestant people not to be swept further from the teaching of the Bible by the way of ecumenical propaganda that has already begun in the wake of the bombing."
"Surely by now we must see that more of the same evil medicine that has brought such depravity onto our streets cannot possibly cure it!
"For over 30 years, we have been told that the abandonment of the Biblical creeds of the Protestant Reformation is the way forward to harmony and peace.
"Rather it has been the way that has led our province into judgment. A return to God's Word, rather than greater abandonment of it, is the way to peace and safety." .
The ministers said the cunning of the bombers, in misleading the security forces about the location of the bomb, "displayed a satanic cruelty, unmatched in the long period of Ulster's terrorist troubles".
The ministers are: Rev John Morrow, of Omagh; Rev Ivan Foster, of Kilskeery; Rev Roy Stewart, Cookstown; Rev David Priestley, Clogher Valley; Rev William Leonard, Sixmilecross; Rev Colin Mercer, Castlederg; Rev Geoffrey Abraham, Aughnacloy; ; Rev Maurice Baxter, Mulvin; retired minister the Rev Harry Cairns, as well as Maurice Morrow, clerk of session, Dungannon.
They asked: "May the God of all mercy draw near to the broken-hearted and touch the broken bodies of those injured".
FREE Presbyterian ministers in Tyrone have bitterly attacked Tony Blair and Mo Mowlam over the Omagh bomb.
In a joint statement, they said the Prime Minister and Secretary of State had pursued policies which had encouraged the atrocity and others before it.
''Yesterday's murderous monsters have become today's ministers-in-waiting," they said.
Nine ministers and a Church official condemned "ecumenical propaganda" after the bombing and urged a "return to God's Word".
A Free Presbyterian Sunday School teacher, Esther Gibson, was among the 28 people killed by the bomb. Her family later discovered Esther, who was to be married next year, had already drawn up plans for her Sunday School classes this autumn.
The ministers said: "We would earnestly seek to warn the Protestant people not to be swept further from the teaching of the Bible by the way of ecumenical propaganda that has already begun in the wake of the bombing."
"Surely by now we must see that more of the same evil medicine that has brought such depravity onto our streets cannot possibly cure it!
"For over 30 years, we have been told that the abandonment of the Biblical creeds of the Protestant Reformation is the way forward to harmony and peace.
"Rather it has been the way that has led our province into judgment. A return to God's Word, rather than greater abandonment of it, is the way to peace and safety." .
The ministers said the cunning of the bombers, in misleading the security forces about the location of the bomb, "displayed a satanic cruelty, unmatched in the long period of Ulster's terrorist troubles".
The ministers are: Rev John Morrow, of Omagh; Rev Ivan Foster, of Kilskeery; Rev Roy Stewart, Cookstown; Rev David Priestley, Clogher Valley; Rev William Leonard, Sixmilecross; Rev Colin Mercer, Castlederg; Rev Geoffrey Abraham, Aughnacloy; ; Rev Maurice Baxter, Mulvin; retired minister the Rev Harry Cairns, as well as Maurice Morrow, clerk of session, Dungannon.
They asked: "May the God of all mercy draw near to the broken-hearted and touch the broken bodies of those injured".
Further Information
Publisher: BELFAST TELEGRAPH
Ref: BT/0205
Published Date: 22-Aug-98
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