Luanda - Angola's churches, horrified by a rebel attack on a train at the weekend that claimed between 150 lives and 250 lives, most of them civilian, are appealing for an end to 26 years of civil war.
The Committee of Churches for Peace in Angola ordered a month-long religious fast in the name of peace and urged Savimbi's rebels to stop fighting.
Angola's war, which resumed in earnest in 1998 after the collapse of a 1994 peace accord, has claimed at least 500,000 lives and displaced four million of its 12 million people.