NationStates Jolt Archive


Bloody Sunday-- Holy war begins within Ancaria

Ancaria
16-06-2004, 12:28
<<<Announcement to all nations who care to listen!!!>>>

Following the events of this past sunday the always constant fighting among religious groups has increased a hundred-fold. The Catholics are focusing on the Protestants with both groups attacking the Church of the State and all groups attacking the Old Believers those who still follow the religion of Ananda. And caught between all of them are the moderates, the atheist, and the believers of religions not directly involved in the war.

All sides have a version of the events that led to the fighting, but the essential truth is that a bombing took place within a Catholic church. Forunately there were no deaths and almost no injures. There was no proof as to who or what had done it, but a Catholic extremist took it upon himself to retaliate. He then bombed a protestant church center which included a large daycare center. Four children died and eighty people including one family of eight were moderately to severely injured.

This led to an increase of fighting involving bombs, riots, vandalism, rape, lynching, etc. The Church of the State attempted to calm the situation by acting as mediator. However that only awakened the deep resentment held by the various religious groups. This led to a shifting of fighting strength to included the Church of the State. This brought the government into it officially. Due to bad planning someone within the church decided that now was a good time to deal with the Old Believer sects. This only led to an uprising among the rural communities.

Events continue to rage out of control and there seems to be nothing the government can do to retify it without worsen it. Therefore we request the aid of other nations especially those associated with religious ideas. Perhaps the people will listen to someone they identify with.
NiSora II
16-06-2004, 13:50
NiSora II
16-06-2004, 13:52
Being an officially Atheist state while having a large unofficially recongized faction of Old Believers we will enter this war if only to punish the Catholic and Protestants for their stupidity and attacking these groups. Except several dozen A level peacekeepers to arrive within the next twelve hours.
Hold out for as long as you can.
Jeruselem
16-06-2004, 14:12
We are willing to send a senior Catholic from Jeruselem to assist in brokering a peace settlement with the Catholic leaders. As for the Protestants, can't do much about them.
Anandan
18-06-2004, 05:51
If you'd like we can send a representative from all these religious groups to your nation to try and calm things down. However if you want this to really work you've got to calm down the State Church's actions. If they continue to act impulsively they will only make matters worse.
HK47
18-06-2004, 07:01
We are suppose to be in the middle of a hugh civil war however everyone who was involved in the fray seems to have forgotten about it... so here we are ready and will to kick some Catholic butt. We are senting peacekeepers with reto-fitted AK47s capable of spraying 25 .45 hollow-tip
bullets per second. They also have bottles of naphlem. Don't worry they won't kill any children. Everyone else is pretty much a big target.
Rotovia
18-06-2004, 07:28
"May I suggest calling a Day of Prayer? When religious tensions gripped Rotovia, the President's call for a Day of Prayer, with all religions helped to bring down the tensions enough for talks to begint he next day"

Senator Charles Wheeler
Minister for Foreign Affairs