GOD'S HOTLINE

Dutch artist Johan van der Dong chose a mobile phone number to show that God was available anywhere and anytime, Radio Netherlands reported.

He says people these days almost cannot live without a telephone any longer.. And he's dead-serious when he says that he believes that praying could becoming as meaningful as it was in humanity's distant past, if people could also speak their prayers and thoughts into God's Hotline voicemail.

God's Hotline on 7 March at 4pm at Groningen city's Northern railway station - where the entire stairwell has been turned into a free public art gallery, the Kunstruimte. The mobile phone for God is just an ordinary prepaid Vodaphone without any fancy bells or whistles except a voice-mail facility, he said.

People leaving messages can place their thoughts on this voice mail, and it becomes another form of prayer,' he says. He believes in a God but is not of any formal denomination, he says.

"A long time ago, in humanity's long-distant past, people started praying to God for many things, normally holding up their hands or folding them in prayer, asking God for deliverance and to help them."

Now, he feels, prayer can reach a similarly high level of devotion if people could pray to God on His own personal hotline.

"REACH OUT AND TOUCH FAITH"