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Interfaith Day of Prayer to be celebrated this week in Colville

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The 6th Annual Interfaith National Day of Prayer will be celebrated Thursday on the north lawn of the Stevens County Courthouse. 215. S. Oak in Colville.

According to the Rev. Jim CastroLang of First Congregational United Church of Christ, the event is aimed at healing brokenness.

“The sense of division and strife is everywhere in our country today and even in our families,” he said in an announcement. “Our country calls all people of faith to join together on this day to pray for healing of the divisions.”

This celebration will include sharings or prayers from a variety of the world’s religions including the wide spectrum in Christianity. Everyone is invited to bring a prayer for healing or an expression of healing across divisions to be shared with the group. 

It will take place at 5 p.m.

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Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Assistant Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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