Around 60 people were present, among them the Catholic auxiliary Bishop D. Roberto Mariz, Bishop D. Jorge Pina Cabral of the Lusitanian Church and Bishop Sifredo Teixeira of the Methodist Church. Jorge Pina Cabral and Bishop Sifredo Teixeira of the Methodist Church. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Poet Sophia de Mello Breyner’s verses \u2018Give us Lord the peace we ask for, peace without victor and without vanquished\u2019 marked the start of the celebration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a profound moment of interiority, stillness and silence, the word Peace was pronounced in different languages and with the sensitivity of the various confessions,<\/strong> stating: \u2018God is love, the whole world needs peace. The world thirsts for Peace!\u2019 The moderator, Rev. S\u00e9rgio of the Lusitanian Church, concluded: \u2018Today we have rekindled the flame’. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Now it is up to us to find ways and creativity to keep it going, perhaps without waiting a year…<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lurdes Teixeira on behalf of the TfE team in Porto<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo L. Teixeira during the celebration; invitation flyer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2018Today we have rekindled the flame’. This was the spontaneous expression of the moderator at the end of the ecumenical prayer for peace in Portugal, on the occasion of Europe Day 2024. The celebration took place in the Cedofeita church in Porto with the presence of representatives of various Churches in the area. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":348873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"Join in Prayer for Peace: Uniting Faiths in Portugal","_seopress_titles_desc":"Join us in a multi-faith prayer for peace in Porto, celebrated on Europe Day, fostering unity through diversity and heartfelt prayers.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4638,3136],"tags":[880,947,881,884,728],"class_list":["post-348894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2024-europe-day","category-news-en","tag-9-maggio-festa-delleuropa","tag-9-mai-journee-de-leurope","tag-9-may-europe-day","tag-9-mai-europatag","tag-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348894"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349012,"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348894\/revisions\/349012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
We recited the \u2018Our Father\u2019 holding hands, followed by the blessing given together by the representatives of the various churches. We left off by drawing a card at random with a key word to build peace and singing the Gen Rosso song \u2018Sow Peace\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/together4europe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1Europe-Day-Porto-2024_Foto-privato-scaled-e1715780209908.jpg\")
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