Pax Christi calls for special time of prayer and action for Syria

Pax Christi UK is supporting the International movement in calling for a special time for prayer and action for Syria between 15-20 March 2016. Organising an action of solidarity or day of fasting or prayer is also an occasion to meet with refugees in your own community.

Pax Christi has provided web-links to organisations monitoring airstrikes on Syria and cities under seige in Syria. Such information, said Pat Gaffney of Pax Christi, is rarely offered by the mainstream press yet is essential in trying to get a full picture of the on-going violence and our role in contributing to it.

Pax Christi is urging parishes to include a special prayer for Syria in Masses on Sunday, 20 March. Families too are urged to hold a vigil or time of prayer with friends.

More information, including prayers, can be found here: http://paxchristi.org.uk/2016/03/07/creating-signs-of-hope-for-syria-15-20-march/

Individuals and groups are urged to send their own prayers, messages of hope and photographs to the Pax hrsiti International Facebook
www.facebook.com/paxchristi.net and to use #HopeforSyria in any publicity they may create on social media.