IS THERE A FEMININE RESPONSE TO TERROR? After the Christchurch mosque shootings, New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern didn't start a war on terror. She covered her head, cried, paid for funerals and passed gun control. Is it because she's a woman?

The tragic events of bombings of Christian churches in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday once again warn us of the phenomena of increasing religious intolerance and attacking places of worship in many parts of the world. These also reiterate the need to work in partnership with all people of good will to counter these forces of hatred and to nurture a culture of peace. WE PRAY that God may grant courage and strength to all communities — Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, Muslim and all others, as we stand together as one people.