PEOPLE around the world will light candles for missing Madeleine McCann today as her parents mark an agonising year without her.
It was at about 9.15pm on May 3 last year that the little girl disappeared from her bed in her family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, southern Portugal.
Kate and Gerry McCann will spend the day at home in Rothley, Leicestershire, with their t
hree-year-old twins Sean and Amelie.
Special church services will be held in Portugal and Britain to mark the sombre anniversary.
Supporters of the McCanns are also being asked to light candles, shine torches or turn on a porch lamp between 9.30pm and 10pm tonight to symbolise the period when she went missing.
Everton, Madeleine's favourite football club, will join in by switching on the floodlights at its Goodison Park ground at this time.
The campaign – named "Light The Way Home" – has been organised by Helping to Find Madeleine, an independent group of the McCanns' backers.
After completing an exhausting round of interviews with British and foreign media, to raise the profile of Madeleine again, the McCanns will mark the poignant one-year landmark privately.
n The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, has written a special prayer to mark the first anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance.
Releasing the prayer on his website, Dr Sentamu renewed his call for efforts to be re-doubled in finding Madeleine.
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