Iraq Vigil In Earlsdon - 19th March

The churches of Earlsdon and Chapelfields will be holding a vigil to mark the fifth anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq.

It will take place on Wednesday, March 19th from 5.30 to 6pm, outside the Methodist church (opposite the City Arms). The organisers are hoping to be joined by Muslims from the local mosque, as well as any other group or individual who wishes to do so.

Jim Cunningham and Geoffrey Robinson (the MPs for Coventry South and Coventry North-West) have also been invited.

The UK alone has spent £5 billion on military operations in Iraq, but five years onwards, 10 million Iraqis live on food rations. OXFAM says 70% of the population has no access to safe drinking water. Unemployment is above 60%.

Prayers at the vigil will be offered for the military dead, for the refugees from the war (2.3 million people have fled to neighbouring countries; 2 million more displaced within Iraq), and for these wider costs of the war.