[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 52 (Tuesday, April 24, 2001)]
[Senate]
[Page S3797]
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. As we think of the 
pain and suffering inflicted on Christians because of their faith, we 
also are reminded of all forms of intolerance over religion in the 
world today. 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. And 
may it begin in each of us. Amen.

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