Dhaka (Fides Service) - Christ's message of peace will be given ample space this year on state TV and radio in Bangladesh, a mainly Muslim country where Christians are about 240,000 among a population of 125,000,000. The Christian Community Centre, sponsored by the Catholic Bishops of Bangladesh, is working on TV, radio and other programmes to highlight the message of peace which the Christ Child offers to the whole world. Some 100 Christians, Catholics and Protestants are rehearsing and videotaping a programme to be telecast on government run Bangladesh Television on Christmas Day. Director of the Centre Father Kamal Corraya said the programme, scheduled for 10.30pm, will consist of traditional Christmas hymns as a background for clips of the many different charitable and social services offered by the small Christian minority to the people of Bangladesh. Peace is also the main theme in the special Christmas issue of the national Catholic weekly Pratibeshi: writers who contribute with essays, stories and poems have focussed on "love and forgiveness for peace in society". Father Kamal explained that in view of recent terrorist attacks both in Bangladesh and overseas, peace is the deepest desire of everyone, and Christians know that peace is a gift of God and it can only be fostered by "forgiveness and love". (Source UCAN Fides Service 11/12/2002)