In an appeal circulated to all the churches in villages and in urban neighbourhoods, the church requested that a prayer session be organized for the victims of the ethnic clashes between the Bodos and Bengali-speaking Muslims in the BTC area.
The executive committee meeting of the Presbyterian Church of India (PCI), held during the second week of August in Shillong, Meghalaya, discussed the ongoing communal violence in Assam between the Muslims and the Bodos where church leaders were informed that besides 77 people being killed in the violence, four lakh were displaced and many refugees lodged in around 300 relief camps in Assam and north Bengal.
The PCI expressed anguish over the communal clashes and appealed to all its units in the country to organise prayer services asking for God's intervention to end the violence.