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Seychelles to mark women’s world prayer day tomorrow |06 March 2014

Seychellois in general and women in particular are being invited to take part in a world prayer day tomorrow, Friday March 7.

There will be two services – one at St Paul’s Cathedral, Victoria, at 4.30pm, and the other at St Matthew’s Church on Praslin starting at 5pm.

Every year a group of women from nine area churches organise and celebrate a World Day of Prayer service on the first Friday of March as part of an international effort observed in some 170 countries.

Each annual ecumenical service is based around a theme which, in turn, is based around a country. This year’s theme is ‘Streams in the Desert’ and it invites attendees to consider their own lives and recognise “streams in their own deserts; places and moments where God is actively at work”.

The service, which will be followed throughout the globe, has been appropriately enough composed by Egypt’s World Day of Prayer women.

World Day of Prayer themes and writer countries are selected years in advance; the lineup has already been made through 2021 when the Republic of Vanuatu, an island nation set in the South Pacific, will be responsible. It was only serendipity, therefore, that Egypt was the writer nation in a year where its Christian population is badly in need of prayers.

Women around the world, including Seychelles, are therefore being urged to join their sisters in Egypt to pray “that peace and justice will gush forth like streams flowing in the desert”.
Although it is called Women’s World Day of Prayer, the service is open to men as well.

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