Interfaith Prayer Meeting - Copenhagen, Denmark

By Nobuhiro Igarashi meeting and safe things before we pray for more togetherness personal matters.

O n Saturday May 6th at 10:00 a.m. UPF held an Interfaith with God. The Karolin Prayer meeting for religious experience of Keyghaldi- leaders. God’s presence Østergaard, In Denmark, the 4th Friday after must be from the Easter is a public holiday which is emanating from Assyrian celebrated as “Store Bededag” / the being in the Will Christian faith, Great Prayer Day by the Lutheran state of God. We need to realize that we are shared her church. This day was established in not just individuals and do not manage personal 1686 to gather several weekdays of everything ourselves. testimony of how God interfered in her penance and prayer in one day. Clara life and led her to deep faith and trust in Therefore, we decided PRAYER was a Frederiksen, God. She has a strong conviction that relevant focus for our interfaith founder and God is guiding our lives. gathering this time. leader of the After the Eight religious leaders and eight Danish Interfaith presentations FFWPU members participated. Forum for many pastor Lene Gertrud Vad was MC and welcomed years, is a Skovmark led all everybody to the 18th interfaith prayer Catholic, but has participants in meeting in Denmark and introduced the a rahter humoristic approach to our unison prayer and topic. faith in God; it matters more what is comtemplation. Gods point of view, than what is our Everybody briefly introduced All the guests own viewpoint. She mentioned about themselves and their background. the importance to learn about faith from were moved and very happy for the Before the presentations, Gertrud read following our natural longing for a format of our meeting and there was a several passages from the World deep sharing and high atmosphere deeper meaning in our life. Scriptures. during the lunch shared afterwards. Nobuhiro Igarashi gave a very deep Several participants commented that Pastor Ole Skjerbæk Madsen, explanation about prayer from our they felt strongly our FFWPU HQ is a founder of Areospagos and In the principle point of view. He said, prayer house of prayer. Masters Light, spoke about God as a is like a report and sharing with our personal God who takes initiative to . Heavenly Parent and that it is important reach out to us and said prayer is a to pray for God’s providence, public .