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The first-ever Global Day of Prayer for Media is being hailed as “a outstanding success” and “a robust 24-hour stay prayer expertise” after hundreds of Christians world wide engaged within the occasion on Sunday.
More than 2,000 individuals joined within the live-streamed prayer marathon, logging on from over 25 nations – with the Philippines registering the very best viewership.
More than 180 ladies and men concerned in media took half within the occasion, explaining their function and setting out their ardour to share the Christian gospel by media in all its types. Each led prayers with many contributing Bible verses of encouragement.
Christians in media from nations together with the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Argentina took turns to hope for the media panorama.
There had been greater than 14,000 web page hits on the occasion web site, www.prayformedia.com, in the course of the occasion.
Among these backing the Global Day of Prayer was Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell. In a video message posted on social media, he invited Christians “to hitch me in praying for the media and people usually placing their lives on the road to inform the tales that have to be informed.”
The day of prayer was the brainchild of co-operation between Christians in Media UK, Christian Media and Art Australia, the Christian Broadcasting Association of New Zealand, and the Hollywood Prayer Network, of the United States.
Following the Day of Prayer, a spokesperson for Christians in Media UK mentioned the occasion was “a outstanding success, creating a robust 24-hour stay prayer expertise that united viewers and believers from world wide”.
“The overwhelmingly constructive suggestions reaffirms the necessity and want for a prayer-focused gathering devoted to the media, arts, and leisure industries,” they mentioned.
“We imagine that is only the start of a robust custom, and we’re already feeling a renewed pleasure to discover the potential for internet hosting this occasion once more subsequent yr.”
Rev Peter Crumpler is a Church of England minister in St Albans, Herts, UK, and a former communications director with the CofE. He was amongst these from the UK main prayers in the course of the occasion.
