'God's Plan Will Prevail': Up To 50,000 Christians In Iraq To Pray Together For Peace
Tens of thousands of Christians persecuted and displaced by Islamic
State will on Friday gather to pray together for the Church and for
Iraq.
The six-hour event in Erbil, Kurdistan, is expected to attract
between 25,000 and 50,000 Christians of all denominations, and will be
broadcast across the Middle East by Christian satellite network SAT-7.
It is organised by Life Agape – which coordinates a nationwide prayer
network in Iraq – in partnership with the Chaldean Catholic Church and
other denominations, and comes at the end of 50 days of prayer and
fasting.
Among the Christians who gather to pray will be representatives from
the villages and towns recently liberated from ISIS near Mosul. They
will share testimonies and receive prayer, and two of the region's best
known worship leaders, Revd Zyad Shehada from Jordan and Nizzar Faris
from Lebanon, will lead the gathering in song.
Those who attend will stand together in the shape of a cross, and
will release balloons with written prayers on them "as a symbol of
raising prayer on behalf of the whole nation," said George Makeen, SAT-7
ARABIC's programming director.
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