Peace church pastor arrested in Sri Lanka
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PHILADELPHIA—West Philadelphia Mennonite Church (WPMC) has reported the arrest and imprisonment of Manohar Huthin, pastor of Gospel Grace Church in Mannar, Sri Lanka. Charges against him are not known. Mannar Island is a small island off the northwest coast of the main island.
Manohar came to the United States to receive religious training. He attended WPMC in the late 1980s and was a pastoral intern there in 1990. He then went to India, where he lived as a refugee. While there, he attended the Mennonite World Conference assembly in Calcutta in 1997.
In 1998, he returned to the United States, and in 1999 he studied at the Summer Peacebuilding Institute at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va. Back in Sri Lanka, Manohar has maintained a peace witness, and his congregation is known as a peace church, a rarity in his country.
WPMC has continued regular contact with Manohar and has provided some financial support for him and his church’s projects, including post-tsunami relief.
Manohar’s church is asking for prayer on his behalf, and Amnesty International has been alerted to his situation.—Mennonite World Conference
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