An informal coalition of prominent lay Christians from six continents have launched a global campaign calling on the faithful to pray for the persecuted prisoners of conscience in China from May 23 to May 30. Specifically, the global prayer effort will focus on the millions of Christians, Uyghur Muslims, Tibetan Buddhists, Falun Gong prisoners of conscience, Hong Kong activists, “human rights defenders, lawyers, citizen journalists, bloggers, civil society activists and dissidents of all kinds” that are brutally persecuted the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for their beliefs. “As Christians, we feel a particular responsibility to pray and we believe that prayer has the power to convert and the power to change the situation,” said campaign spokesperson Andrew Bennett, Canada’s former ambassador for religious freedom, to The Epoch Times. The campaign, Global Prayer for China, was initiated in response to a call for prayer for the “Church and peoples of China” by Burma’s Cardinal …