PRESS RELEASE NO.521/SP/TKMG20/11/2022
G20 COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA TEAM

Marves -Jakarta, November 12 2022 – The Jakarta's Catholic Archdiocese (KAJ) held a Mass Prayer in the Holy Eucharist on November 12-13, 2022. This prayer is observed for the success of the G20 Summit to be held in Bali.

All KAJ’s Parish Churches invited their church member to join together in pray   so that world leaders share the same purpose to establish world welfare, world peace, environmental integrity, and respect for human dignity.

“The Jakarta's Catholic Archdiocese as part of the nation of Indonesia and also as citizen must take part to support the success of the Indonesian Presidency at the G20 Summit in Bali,” Secretary General of the KAJ, Fr. Adi Prasojo, told G20 Communications and Media Team on November 12, 2022.

According to him, concrete support from the KAJ was reflected through a Mass Prayer in the Holy Eucharist. He added that in the prayer that was made during a eucharist mass, the parish priests led the people to pray for the successful and peaceful organization of G20 Summit and for it to result in agreement for the sake of a better future for the world.

The prayer leader, he continued, recited the G20 eucharistic prayer when starting the mass together in each parish church. The KAJ prepared and distributed prayer stanzas to all parish churches.

They also prayed for all people involved in the committee, members, and organizers of the Summit who had given their best for the event and also the public involved in that international summit. “May all the series of G20 Summit in Bali run well and successfully. May the Summit result in consensus and agreement for the world peace and efforts to draw up international policy for the sake of common welfare and respect for human dignity,” he stated.

Fr. Adi concluded his talk with G20 Communications and Media Team by citing the last verse in the eucharist prayer, to pray that all events at the G20 Summit in Bali 2022 can run well and smoothly, consensus and agreements will be reached for world peace and efforts to build international policies for common prosperity and respect for human dignity.  

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