How prayer brought down the Berlin Wall
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Pete Greig2019-11-05T00:00:00
Saturday marks 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Pete Greig, founder of the 24-7 prayer movement, tells the remarkable story of how a Peace Prayer Rally grew to 300,000 participants in the weeks leading up to November 9, 1989, and how communist officials were prepared for every eventuality, "except candles and prayers"
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