November 9, 1989, is recorded in history as the moment when the Berlin Wall was taken down. However, the prayer meeting that took place precisely one month before contributed greatly to its demise.
Despite the danger of death and in the face of armed police, thousands came together at the St Nicholas Church in the East German city to pray for peace. Afterwards, they joined with around 70,000 demonstrators and walked through Leipzig on October 9, 1989, to object the country’s communist government.
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This was the greatest spontaneous protest ever seen in that region resulting from years of regular prayer meetings started by Christian Führer, the pastor of St Nicholas.
These prayers began as a quest in 1982 for peace in a war-torn world.
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