APRO Australian Participation of Religious Organizations condemned the recent attack on a Hindu temple in Reagents Park. APRO aims to promote and advocate for inter-faith harmony, and understanding and respect between the adherents of the various religions in Australia and to combat religious prejudice and discrimination. It has members from Council fo Australian Jewery, Bahai, Buddhist, Hindu (represented by Hindu Council of Australia), National Council of Churches, Muslims and Sikh faith.
Hindu Council of Australia has been an active member for last ten years.
All the leaders condemned the attack in strong terms and issued following Press Release :
“We, leaders and representatives of faith-based organisations in Australia, condemn the shameful attack on the Hindu Temple in Regents Park on 14 October 2018.
Attacks on religious institions are intolerable and shameful.
Australia enjoys and celebrates religious diversity and is rightly recognised as a leading example of fairness, tolerance and inter-communal harmony and cooperation and it is incumbent upon us to do our best to ensure that incidents such as this are exposed for what they are and the perpetrators punished.
We call upon the police to make every effort to speddily identify the culprit/s and for the courts to deal with any guilty party promptly and appropriately.
We further call on our political leaders to publicly and unambiguously condemn the attack”
- National Council of Churches in Australia
- Muslims Australia (Australian Federation of Islamic Councils)
- Executive Council of Australian Jewry
- Australian Baha’i Community
- Federation of Australian Buddhist Councils
- Hindu Council of Australia
- National Sikh Council of Australia
