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World AIDS Day – 1 December

What words express the grief? the devastation? the despair?

What words express the hope of a cure?

 

 

Worship resources

Hold — Sam Goodman, UK

Prayer for people living with HIV-AIDS — Vienna Cobb Anderson, South Africa

World AIDS Day Prayer — Joint Liturgical Group, UK

 

 

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