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Football cup Final appeal for missing Madeleine McCann

 


FOOTBALL fans were again enlisted in the search for Madeleine McCann when a film of the missing girl was played at the FA Cup Final yesterday. The two-minute video was shown twice to fans on the big screens at Wembley Stadium during the match between Manchester United and Chelsea, before kickoff and again at half-time.

The clip, which has the soundtrack of the Simple Minds hit 'Don't You Forget About Me', was earlier screened at the Uefa Cup final between Sevilla and Espanyol in Glasgow on Wednesday.

In Portugal on Friday night the parents of the missing Madeleine girl stood together holding candles as they prayed for their daughter's return.

Gerry and Kate McCann were given the lights by girls from the village of Praia Da Luz, Portugal, where Madeleine, four, was snatched more than two weeks ago, at the end of a late-night prayer vigil.

The couple appeared tired and drained at the end of a day in which around 60 million people across the world clicked on to Madeleine's image as part of the international campaign to bring her back.

The McCanns, accompanied by friends and family, stood quietly at the front of the Church of Nossa Senhora Da Luz as they prayed for Madeleine's safe return with villagers who again gathered in a show of unity with the family.

Mrs McCann wept quietly as a series of readings from the Life of Christ were read in Portuguese and English including one passage from Luke's gospel in which Jesus goes missing as a child for three days before he is finally found in the temple.

The readings were part of a long prayer service in which villagers joined hands with the McCanns and said 49 Hail Marys in English and Portuguese.

The service was partly led by Fr Paul Seddon, who married the couple and baptised Madeleine.




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