Bring Back Our Girls Prayer Vigil

     The Rev. Joseph Lowery will lead a “Bring
Back Our Girls” prayer vigil on Sunday, May 18, on behalf of the nearly 300 Nigerian
girls kidnapped a month ago from their school. The vigil, sponsored by The
Lowery Institute, will be held from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the parking lot of Central
United Methodist Church, 501 Mitchell St., in northwest Atlanta.

    On April 14, hundreds of armed militants stormed
the Chibok Government Secondary Girls School, located in a remote area in
northeastern Nigeria, and forced
more than 300 schoolgirls into trucks, set fire to a room in the school and drove
into the forest. About 50 of the girls managed to escape their captors, identified
as members of Boko Haram, an Islamist extremist group that has killed thousands
of people during violent attacks in recent years.

     “We ask people of faith from across the Atlanta
metro area to join us on Sunday as we petition God for the divine care and
protection of our sisters in Nigeria until they are found and safely back in
the arms of their families,” Reverend
Lowery said.

     In the case of inclement weather, Sunday’s prayer
vigil will be held in the sanctuary at Central United Methodist Church, located
at Martin Luther King Jr. and Northside drives.