World Day of Prayer event March 1 at Holy Family Parish
By Medicine Hat News on February 2, 2019.
Medicine Hat News A World Day of Prayer event will be held in Medicine Hat March 1 at 7 p.m. at Holy Family Parish. Everyone is welcome to attend. This year’s theme is “Taller Walls or Longer Tables?” A group of Slovenian Christian women is inviting the world to “come to the table — everything is ready” and asking “Who is not at the table?” These Slovenian women are asking people in 170 communities to unit in prayer and immediate action for women touched by injustice. For 97 years, says a press release, women have bridged social, geographic and political barriers to justice through World Day of Prayer. women tend to be the first to experience the effects of change because they tend to have fewer material resources to soften the change and a closer relationship to their community. As a result, they are also the first to notice things like a looming refugee crisis (France 2013), the precarious situation of overseas foreign workers (the Philippines 2017) and the effects of illegal mining on drinking water and rainforest (Suriname 2018). Each year, the experiences of women from the host country inform the prayers of Canadians. The immediate application of those prayers, the press release continues, has resulted in half a million dollars in grants to justice projects over the last 10 years. 6-5
