KARACHI, July 5: Members of a Christian’s organization criticizing the control of Young Men Christian’s Association (YMCA) by the members of one sect have urged the authorities to ensure that all the minority community members were allowed to enter and pray at the church located in the YMCA. In a statement the moderator of the United Presbyterian Church, diocese of Karachi, Bioz Philip said that he along with 25 other worshippers went to the YMCA church to pray but were stopped by security personnel on the instructions of the YMCA Administrator Rev Joseph Paul of the Roman Catholic Church and Shazer Shamoon, who is a government servant and a member of a caretaker body appointed by the Sindh government.

Mr Philip said that after they were stopped from entering or praying in the YMCA church, where the Protestant Christians had been praying from time to time, they, under protest, prayed on the road outside the YMCA.

He urged the authorities to ensure that all the Christians were allowed to enter and pray at the YMCA church and participate in the religious programmes.