A Town Prays for Peace

The service for the World Day of Prayer opens the peace festival. Traditionally prepared by a team of Protestant and Catholic women, the World Day of Prayer is also celebrating an anniversary. The evening’s theme is ‘For Justice and Peace – 100 Years of the World Day of Prayer’.

At 18:30, a chain of lights along Nördlingen’s town wall sends a visible message of peace, hope and solidarity. Passing on the Peace Light from Bethlehem and then gathering for Taizé devotion at 20:00 in St George’s, people of different generations and faiths share a special moment of community.

A Taizé devotion follows at 20:00 in St George’s, as part of Nördlingen’s Lights for Peace and the peace festival.

We bring the peace festival (5–7 March) to a close with a service centred on peace. The service is conceived as a participatory singing project, with pieces by Philipp Bliss and Louis Armstrong alongside pop and gospel music. Information from deanery cantor Clara Ernst: clara.ernst@elkb.de.

In a spirit of ecumenical fellowship, we celebrate the solemn conclusion of the town’s 24 hours of prayer for peace in the beautiful Church of St Salvator. The prayer vigil begins the previous evening with a chain of lights and Taizé prayer in St George’s.