# Church leaders launch online pilgrimage for Lent

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/02/13/church-leaders-launch-online-pilgrimage-lent/
- Published: 2009-02-13T14:42:39+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

 

 ⌊Christian Aid online pilgrimage for Lent 2009⌉

 

 

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Church leaders from all denominations are promoting a virtual journey around the
Holy Land, organised by charity Christian Aid. The virtual pilgrimage, which coincides
with the festival of Lent, will "transport travellers from their inbox to the lands
made familiar through scriptures and contemporary headlines".

 

 

 

Participants will get the chance to watch short videos, view photo galleries, read
stories and pray while looking at the places where Jesus preached. They also meet
local Christians, Jews and Muslims living there today, hear their personal stories
and hear how the conflict touches the lives of both Israelis and Palestinians, and
learn how hard many people are working for peace.

 

The pilgrimage will also include fundraising messages asking for support for Christian
Aid’s Middle East appeal.

 

 

 

The church leaders promoting the pilgrimage included the Rt Rev Peter Price, the
Bishop of Bath & Wells; Rt Rev John Gladwin, Bishop of Chelmsford, the Rt Rev Tim
Stevens, Bishop of Leicester; and the Rt Rev John Pritchard, Bishop of Oxford; Christine
Elliot, the Methodist Secretary for External Affairs; the Rev Richard Mortimer, 
the United Reformed Church General Secretary; Alan Argent, Congregational Federation
and Baptist and Christian Aid Intercommunity initiative manager Nigel Varndell.

 

 

 

Lent begins on 25 February 2009.

 

 

 

www.christianaid.org.uk/pilgrimage

 

 

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