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Monday 14 December 2009

A Trip Back ...

The Sun Headline ”McCann Prayers On Praia Trip” says:

Kate and Gerry McCann tonight attended a service at the church in Praia da Luz where they used to pray for their missing daughter. Looking upset the couple walked hand in hand into the tiny Nossa Senhora da Luz church.

They were attending a vigil mass taken by Father Jose Pacheco. The catholic priest comforted the couple in the days after Maddie went missing on May 3rd 2007. The couple who are devout Catholics had earlier visited the church at dawn.

They later said on their website that their pain felt "rawer" in Praia da Luz but they had found comfort from being there.

Kate wrote: "Although our pain feels much rawer here, it is comforting at the same time we feel closer to Madeleine."

She and husband Gerry decided to make the heartbreaking trip on the spur of the moment after a court case in Portugal's capital Lisbon was unexpectedly postponed. The couple drove the 150 miles in a hire car and were last night believed to be staying with the Rev Haynes Hubbard and his wife Susan.

The couple run the Anglican church in Praia da Luz and befriended Kate and Gerry when Maddie went missing in May 2007. They have visited the McCanns in England several times. Kate and Gerry are expected to stay the weekend and visit the Ocean Club resort where Maddie disappeared shortly before her fourth birthday.