RELIGIOUS communities in will come together in Bromsgrove to remember those who died in Friday's Paris terror attacks.

The Bromsgrove Muslim Community Trust and the Parish of Bromsgrove with Dodford is holding an Act of Prayer and Remembrance for Paris at St John’s Baptist Church on Sunday, November 22.

Friday's attacks at several locations around the French captial killed 129 people and injured hundreds more.

Naeem Arif, from the Bromsgrove Muslim Community Trust, said: "The horrific attacks on Paris appalled all of us and whilst the extremists and terrorists want to divide communities we must come together for the victims and to send a strong message of unity to all those who wish to divide us.

“Terrorism has no religion or moral standing. No faith or belief can ever justify the killing of innocent people”.

“We must not let any hate-monger divide us but show them that people of all faiths, and none, can live peacefully, together."

The Reverend Christine Holzapfel, team Rector of the Parish of Bromsgrove with Dodford, said: "There is nothing more encouraging and heart warming than people coming together, to grieve together and to stand in unity and solidarity with those who suffer.

"By coming together in this way we will be remembering the victims as well as showing that true religion promotes peace not terrorism. Such barbaric acts are absolutely against the spirit of true Islam.

"Terrorists would want to divide our communities and promote mistrust and hatred amongst us. Let us not play into their hands or let them win."

The service will take place at St John's the Baptist Church in Kidderminster Road, Bromsgrove, from 12.30pm on Sunday, November 22.