[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 132 (Monday, September 29, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S10103]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  God of all nations, Father of every tribe, color, and tongue of 
humankind, You have created us to live at peace with one another in 
Your family. You have revealed to us Your desire that all Your children 
should be free to worship You. Here in America, freedom of religion is 
a basic fabric of our life. Sadly, this freedom is not enjoyed in so 
many places in our world. We are grieved by the shocking accounts of 
religious persecution. Prejudice expressed in hostility and then in 
hatred and violence exists throughout the world. Yesterday, millions 
joined in an International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. As 
we think of the needs, pain, and suffering inflicted on Christians 
because of their faith, we are reminded of all forms of intolerance 
over religion in the world. We remember the suffering of the Jews in 
this century. Forgive any prejudice in our own hearts and purge from us 
any vestige of imperious judgmentalism of people whose expression of 
faith in You differs from our own. We pray for tolerance in the human 
family. Through our Lord and Saviour. Amen.

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