Pope Francis has issued an invitation to Christians everywhere to join together in fasting and prayer for the Middle East and for Syria specifically on Saturday, 9/7/2013. Here's the full text.
This coming Saturday we will live together a special day of fasting and prayer for peace in Syria, the Middle East, and throughout the world. I renew the invitation to the whole Church to live this day intensely, and even now I express gratitude to the other Christian brethren, to the brethren of other religions and to the men and women of good will who desire to join in this initiative, in places and ways of their own. I especially urge the Roman faithful and pilgrims to participate in the prayer vigil here in St. Peter's Square at 19.00, in order to ask the Lord for the great gift of peace. May a powerful cry for peace go up from every land!
We don't have anything planned for 1pm EST (1900 Vatican time) but please lets join together in the spirit with believers around the world in prayer and fasting and take just a few minutes at 1pm on Saturday to say a special prayer that the Spirit of God would fall on Syria and that peace would come.
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