Alliance prayer week

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The Alliance Prayer Week is a worldwide week of prayer for Evangelical Christians initiated by the Evangelical Alliance .

The Alliance Prayer Week was initiated by the founding assembly of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) in 1846 and was first held in 1861. In the German-speaking countries the Alliance prayer week usually takes place in the second full week of January, in the other countries in the first full week of January. Local alliances organize prayer meetings for Christians from different parishes in the area this week. Every year in German-speaking Europe, Protestant Christians from various regional and free churches take part in this prayer initiative at around 1,000 locations.

The week of prayer today is mainly sponsored by the European Evangelical Alliance (EEA). Every year a national alliance prepares the materials for the week of prayer. In 2009 the template came from Austria, in 2010 it was drawn up jointly by the Czech and Dutch alliances and in 2011 by the alliances in Cyprus and Greece. The national alliances create materials based on the templates that are tailored to the circumstances of their own country.

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  1. ↑ Hans Hauzenberger, "Allianz, Evangelische" in ELThG 1, pp. 39-40
  2. ^ History of the World Evangelical Alliance at www.worldevangelicals.org
  3. ↑ Week of Prayer on the EEA website (accessed: January 19, 2015)
  4. ↑ International Prayer Week of the Evangelical Alliance 2011 ended - DEA press release after the Alliance Prayer Week 2011 . Retrieved March 10, 2011.
  5. ↑ The Alliance Prayer Week is becoming more colorful and international - press release IDEA . Retrieved January 21, 2015.
  6. ↑ The WEA links to the EEA on its website
  7. ↑ See EEA website ( Memento from September 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ^ Alliance prayer week from January 9 to 16, 2011. German Evangelical Alliance, January 9, 2011, accessed on July 30, 2017 .