Anglican Communion News Service

Bishop Riah Abu El Assal offers prayers for peace at a shrine of the Holy Child of Bethlehem on the porch of historic St Martin in the Fields Parish, Trafalgar Square, London. Hundreds joined in the liturgy, sponsored by St Georges College. Many ecumenical guests were presented representing Greek Orthodox, Moravian, Roman Catholica, Salvation Army, Society of Friends, United Reformed and Lutherans.

The actual shrine/monument

Bishop Robin Smith, Chairman of the British regional Committee of St George's College, Jerusalem, in the pulpit at St Martin's/ Dean Ross Jones, pictured below, reads the Gospel at the Eucharist.