Protestant clergy on Belfast's Shankill Road have called for a "time of prayer" on Monday to pray for an end to the loyalist feud centred on the area.
A dozen ministers and a group of lay community workers met in a Christian cafe on the Shankill Road to discuss the UDA-UVF tensions.
After the meeting Pastor Jack McKee called for two hours of prayer between 10 a.m. and noon on Monday. The Rev Brian Moore read out a statement on behalf of those attending.
"On behalf of all the churches and the people of the Shankill community we call upon those paramilitary groups involved in the present feud to bring an end to the blood-letting and intimidation.
"As with many other communities across Northern Ireland we have suffered enough. The situation demands and deserves the peace that was promised. As we pray for your victims we also pray for you. May God bless the Shankill and help us as a community to turn back to him," he said
Speaking earlier, Pastor McKee, of the New Life Fellowship Church, claimed there was an atmosphere of fear on the Shankill, and most people, even members of the UVF and UFF, wanted the feud to stop. One woman had suffered a heart attack due to the tension in the area, he said.
"If this was an attack coming from outside the Shankill community people could respond to it, but the fact that it is internal is like the community is imploding," he said.
"There is a fear that is gripping the community and that includes rank-and-file members of the UVF and UFF. Most of them do not want this. It's not just an enemy coming from without, this is friend against friend and in many respects it's ripping families apart, fathers and sons. There's a numbness within the community. People are just totally confused," he said.
Pastor McKee admitted that the killing would probably go on. "We do not hold out much hope that anyone will listen to what we have to say. That does not mean we shouldn't speak out. There are those on both sides hell-bent on continuing it until they feel they have drawn enough blood."