Prayer Calendar April–May 2025 Now Available

Sunset Saturday April 12, 2025 marks the beginning of Pesach, the Jewish Feast of the liberation from Egypt. A time of commemoration and celebration, in which the exodus from slavery is at the centre. Simultaneously the Christian Church celebrates Easter, the Feast of the resurrection of Jesus, the victory over death and darkness. This period also coincides with a historic turning point: eighty years ago, Europe was liberated from the oppression of Nazi Germany, that ended the Holocaust, one of the blackest pages in history.

Three years after that liberation the State of Israel was founded, a homeland for the Jewish people after centuries of diaspora and persecution. Today we experience how precious freedom is. We may thank the Lord for the freedom He gave after years of war, but at the same time we realize that true peace has not been achieved yet. That is why we pray for protection and liberation for Israel, that again is confronted with distress (Psalm 25). In particular we remember the hostages who are still being held in Gaza.