FLOODLIT for Red Wednesday...

... and I have just come from Westminster Cathedral, where it's all happening...

Major Cathedrals, plus other places of worship, will be floodlit in red at dusk today, as people are asked to think of all who are persecuted for their faith across the world. It's Red Wednesday, and in London, the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, and Westminster Cathedral, will all be floodlit in blood-red. Organisers are the great international charity Aid to the Church in Need   and the message is MAKE A STAND FOR FAITH AND FREEDOM.

I spoke to John Pontifex, ACN's spokesman, on Westminster Cathedral piazza.  He has spent the past several years travelling to various places where ACN's help is needed...countries where Christians have been attacked, their churches torched, their homes destroyed...Floodlighting our major buildings and places of worship in red is a rallying-call to prayer and solidarity...

In Rome, the Tevi fountain will flow red today..  Catholic groups including Communion and Liberation, Focolare, and the Christian Workers Movement are all taking part in special services, vigils, and acts of public witness.

You can be part of it too: let's all join in with prayer...