AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Pentecost Sunday Global Day of Prayer for peace and transformation on the African continent. The initiative will continue until 2010

Wednesday, 10 May 2006

Cape Town (Fides Service) - South African Christians will participate in a Global Day of repentance and prayer on Pentecost Sunday, June 4, along with others in Africa who will pray for peace and transformation on the continent. According to prayer-based organisation Transformation Africa, every year on Pentecost until 2010 there will be a global Day of Prayer in which more than 200 million Christians in 156 nations participate. Using 2 Chronicles verses 7:14 and Habakkuk 2:14 as scriptural bases the ecumenical event is part of a three-fold strategy including ten days of day-and-night prayer from Ascension Day till Saturday before Pentecost and 90 days of “community blessing”.
Christians come together in large stadiums, open fields, market squares, churches and other public places to pray and this is broadcast by hundreds and radio and TV stations around the world. East London Catholic Athaly Jenkinson said Africa is fertile material for prayer with all its conflict and socio-economic issues and she asked South African Christians to pray to God for themselves and for their neighbours, for peace and transformation in their hearts and minds, their homes, communities, country and the African continent For more information see: info@transformationafrica.com (R.F.) (Agenzia Fides 10/5/2006 - righe 20, parole 300).


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