St. Ann’s Roman Catholic Church in Flin Flon is hosting a World Day of Prayer tomorrow night.  Catholic Women’s League member Dona O’Brien says this event has been going on for 84 years.  She explained that in about 1922 Canada and the States started working together to celebrate this day and they started doing it on the first Friday in Lent.  She adds by 1928 the first International World Day of Prayer was held around the world and today 170 different countries are involved.  O.Brien adds by 1930 the Day was organized for the first time by a group of Christian women outside of the USA and since then every year a different country is chosen to pick a theme and plan the order of prayer.

This year women in Egypt have organized the event with ladies in 170 countries sharing the same stories and prayers.  It starts at 7:30 tomorrow night at St. Ann’s Church on Center Street.