[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 21211]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Eternal God, throughout the ages, You have revealed Yourself to Your 
people and sought to deepen living faith.
  Again today we pray for peace. At the heart of a wounded world people 
and nations pray for peace in the Middle East.
  May Members of Congress do all they can to end the violence and 
negotiate a just peace so that both Israeli and Palestinian children 
may have hope, reconciliation, and a future.
  Under the cover of the media and amidst the din of religious 
misunderstanding, may America hear the cry of Palestinian Christians, 
the earliest Christian community which is often overlooked and not 
heard in today's conflict. To these ``the forgotten faithful'' show 
Yourself as Saviour and the Source of human life and freedom.
  With them we call upon Your Holy Name now and forever. Amen.

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