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Hear from young Christian, Muslim, Jewish and Tamil Hindu inter-faith leaders, who led prayers and read from their holy texts at a recent youth-led “Gathering in Prayer for Gaza” prayer vigil at St Andrew’s Anglican Church in Indooroopilly. The youth-led vigil was the fourth in a series of “Gathering in Prayer for Gaza” inter-faith vigils that have been held in Brisbane since March
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The Rev’d Nicholas Whereat has commenced a nine-day fast to pray for the more than 1,300 refugees left in limbo in the offshore processing system, and is inviting community members to join him
“While preparing for the hastily organised sanctuary liturgy all those years ago, I vividly remember looking for vigil candles. As I picked up a box of 100 candles in the storage room, I looked at them hoping that enough people would turn up to light them all. Later that day, as more and more people arrived at the vigil, I had to keep bringing additional candles out from storage for people to light. In the end, 1,500 people turned up. I have never been happier to be 500 short of anything in my life,” says The Very Rev’d Dr Peter Catt
“As people of faith and in the tradition of other Christians who have engaged nonviolent approaches, we know that positive change is possible and we seek out the most measured, strategic and effective ways to communicate our message,” says St Andrew’s, South Brisbane parishioner Oscar Delaney
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