wfn.org | World Christian Bodies Call for Day of Prayer for the Balkans

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13-May-1999 
99186 
 
    World Christian Bodies Call for Day of Prayer for the Balkans 
 
    by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
GENEVA - Four world Christian organizations - the World Council of Churches 
(WCC), the Conference of European Churches(CEC), the Lutheran World 
Federation (LWF) and the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) - have 
called on churches and Christians to join in an international day of prayer 
for peace and reconciliation in the Balkans on Sunday, May 16. 
 
    The appeal came on the heels of an ecumenical delegation's visit to 
Yugoslavia April 16-18.  Similar visits are planned to Albania and the 
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. 
 
    The prayer appeal calls on all people to pray for an end to violence in 
the region. Churches and communities are invited to find the forms of 
prayer most appropriate to their local situation. 

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