British Christians offered cell phone “prayer alerts”

[05/05/2008]

British Christians are now able to pray together wherever they may be, by subscribing to a new cell phone service, reports Jeremy Reynalds, correspondent for ASSIST News Service.

Affording to the AFP News Service, a Christian charity, Prayer in Action, has teamed up with a cell phone company to offer the Prayer Mobile service, which it hopes will eventually reach 500,000 people across the country.

Subscribers will receive a text asking them to pray, simultaneously, on issues ranging from terrorism to homelessness and the credit crunch, said an official from the phone firm. the rest