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Monday, February 23, 2009

Prayer vigil focuses on immigration reform

Prayer groups are doing their part to help immigration reform. Maybe all these efforts will get our government to hurry up. DP

BY A.J. VOELPEL | newsday.com

Humanity and compassion must be the twin components of any immigration reform if it is to succeed, according to leaders at an interfaith prayer vigil held Sunday at Community United Methodist Church in Massapequa.

Clergy members from the Massapequa Interfaith Clergy Council and the faithful from other churches and temples attended the vigil, which was part of a nationwide event designed to highlight the work done by religious groups in the ongoing immigration debate.

"Today and over the past 10 days, prayers like this are going on across the country," said the Rev. Jeffry Wells, who hosted the event at the Massapequa church. "We come together from a variety of faiths to create a more just and humane immigration reform."

"Immigrants today are facing challenges that our foremothers and forefathers faced on their journeys to this country," Giordano said.
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