Church Mission Society Starts Prayer Drive for North
New Vision (Kampala)
September 15, 2003
Posted to the web September 15, 2003
Henry Mukasa
Kampala
THE Church Mission Society (CMS), a United Kingdom based charity will today launch a drive to encourage people pray for a quick end to the war in northern Uganda.
The prayer drive which began yesterday is part of CMS's Break the Silence campaign that was launched on August 21 2003.
Over 4,000 supporting churches to CMS worldwide will today drown in prayer to implore God to bring peace to northern Uganda.
"The CMS has had a link to this region since the very beginning of the planting of the Church in northern Uganda. The tragedy that has befallen that region is also our own because we feel deeply with the people of the region, the families that mourn their dead and abducted children," Dr D. Zac Niringiye, CMS's regional director for Africa said in a press release.
The prayers will involve a package for the ravaged community and a break the silence petition form.
Niringiye said areas of conflict, marginalisation, dispossession were a priority on CMS's current mission.
He said northern Uganda was the focus for CMS's advocacy campaign at the summer festivals in UK.
"The prayer programme is in recognition that the northern Uganda crisis is not only a political problem but also spiritual. It must be won not only in peace negotiations but also in prayer," he said.
