play_arrow
Premier Christian Radio Your voice of hope!
Christians will gather outside Tottenham Town Hall at 4pm, hours after a 20-year-old man was stabbed to death in Finsbury Park three miles away.
A 21-year-old man found nearby with a stab wound has been arrested on suspicion of murder, affray, and possessing an offensive weapon.
The knife attack in Seven Sisters Road at around 3am on Saturday brings the number of violent deaths in the capital to 58 so far this year.
Organiser of Sunday’s march, Nims Obunge MBE from the Peace Alliance told Premier: “I’ve never seen a need to call the Church unto the streets the way I do now; we have had such unprecedented levels of violence in our communities.”
Separately, police have launched a murder investigation after a man died following an assault in Morden in south-west London on Thursday.
There just comes a time when silence is not an optional response to violence. We All need to say No! pic.twitter.com/Fq8cRhw76M
— Nims Obunge MBE DL (@NimsObunge) April 21, 2018
Describing the impact of prayer, Mr Obunge said: “We have seen through scripture that prayers work, we’ve seen in our practical lives that prayers work.
“If we’re ever going to try and do anything drastic, I’d rather start from the source.”
Mr Obunge said further prayer walks are planned for east, south and west London in the coming weeks – ensuring each of the city’s 32 boroughs is prayed for.
Explaining why Christians must reach out to people affected by violent crime, he added: “We need to let them know ‘you can be forgiven, you can express forgiveness to others, and you can experience the power and the love of God’.
“The Church is well equipped to do this.”
Click here to listen to Premier’s Marcus Jones speaking with Nims Obunge:
Stay up to date with the latest news stories from a Christian perspective. Sign up to our daily newsletter and receive more stories like this straight to your inbox every morning.
The first in a new series of prayer walks trying to reduce incidents of violent crime gets underway in north London on Sunday afternoon.
On Wednesday evening the House of Lords voted 348 to 225 for an amendment to the E.U. (Withdrawal) Bill that requires the Government to seek a deal to keep us in a customs union post-Brexit. The amendment would have to be accepted by the MPs when the Bill is reported back to the Commons and the outcome is far from certain.
