Posted on 11/15/2014 5:26:53 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Washington National Cathedral hosted it first Muslim prayer service Friday afternoon in an effort to promote interfaith prayer and improved global relations between Muslims and Christians.
The Muslim prayer service held at the Washington National Cathedral was briefly disrupted by a protester, according to a local NBC report.
"Jesus Christ died on that cross over there!" a woman said loudly, immediately after announcements at the beginning of the service were made. "He is the reason why we are to worship only him. Jesus Christ is our lord and savior!"
According to the NBC report, she continued, "We have built, and allowed you here in mosques across this country. Why can't you worship in your mosque, and leave our chuches alone?"
The protester was then escorted out of the cathedral, News4's Kristin Wright reported. She was removed without incident, but she continued her protest once she was taken to an adjoining space.
The Episcopal church set in Washington, D.C. altered its visitor tour schedule in order to host traditional Islamic Friday prayers called Jumu'ah. The service was led by South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool, and held in the Cathedral's north transept, an area considered "almost mosque-like" because of its arches and limited iconography.
Although this is not the first time the Cathedral has welcomed Muslims to join in on its interfaith services and events, it is the first time it has invited Muslims to lead their own prayers within its walls.
Rev. Canon Gina Gilland Campbell was scheduled to offer a welcome to start off the service.
According to the National Cathedral website,Campbell wanted to hold the historic service because she believes that "powerful things come out of praying together."
The site further explains "Leaders believe offering Muslim prayers at the Christian cathedral shows more than hospitality. It demonstrates an appreciation of one another's prayer traditions and is a powerful symbolic gesture toward a deeper relationship between the two Abrahamic traditions."
Not everyone supports the Cathedral's gesture. American Family Association Director of Issue Analysis Bryan Fischer said the Muslim prayer service violates the Ten Commandments.
"The first one of the Ten Commandments is what, you—talking the nation of Israel, true for individuals but this was the Ten Commandments for a nation – you shall have no other Gods before me. Allah is another God," He explained on his Focal Point podcast.
This is not the first time the National Cathedral has invited controversy with its services. In June the Cathedral invited openly transgendered Episcopal priest Rev. Cameron Partridge to preach from its pulpit in honor of LGBT pride month. Openly gay Episcopal Bishop Rev. Gene Robinson presided over the Sunday service. The Cathedral also hosts gay marriage ceremonies.
Planners hope Friday's service will inspire Muslims around the world to be hospitable to Christians.
The service was scheduled to be livestreamed onto the Cathedral's website so it is accessible to everyone.
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One brave woman. God bless her.
filthy goathumpers delenda est...
Guess they were afraid they’d fly a plane into that church if they didn’t comply. It’s what islam does ......
Good luck with that...
We will never be the same.
This makes me absolutely sick to my stomach - have the Muslims invited Christians into their mosques to pray? And - I can only imagine what these Muslims are "praying" for.
I wonder will other Episcopalian parishes follow suit?
They have profaned a Christian shrine. Look through the history of Europe and wherever the Saracens went, they destroyed churches and turned them into mosques. And now we allow them to freely worship a false god in a national shrine? Nonsense. What pure blasphemy.
“Planners hope Friday’s service will inspire Muslims around the world to be hospitable to Christians.
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Horse Puckey....er Camel Puckey....whichever
It inspired muslims to claim a victory of OCCUPATION is what its done.
Thank you.
It took courage to do what she did. It is unfortunate she had to stand alone.
The National Cathedral ceased bing Christian years ago.
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My comment on this event :
SACRILEGE!!!!
The National Cathedral ceased being Christian years ago.
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I believe it! Many years ago a friend and I toured the Cathedral. Went to a service there. The whole place seemed eerie to say the least. Even the bookstore. What needs to take place there is a Holy Ghost Revival. . .how about Franklin Graham, Jentzen Franklin, Jack Graham, Robert Morris. . .and maybe Hal Lindsey and Jack VanImpe for openers to set the record straight on what is going on in this country. Even Sid Roth could put on some seminars. But first I think there needs to be an exorcism of the place.
“And now we allow them to freely worship a false god in a national shrine?”
We are living in a historical time. For the first time in human history the western ruling elites are purposefully committing cultural suicide and purposefully destroying the civilization that allowed them to assume their dominion over society.
Previous civilizations have fallen due to the decay resulting from poor decisions by the ruling classes over decades. Never before have the ruling classes willfully embraced barbaric cultures to undermine the institutions that preserve society (education, military, government, religion, law) in an effort to destroy the higher level society.
Well, these are Episcopalians...who haven’t been Christian for many a long year.
That said, I hope they realize they have just ceded their “cathedral” to Islam, since any place Muslims pray is henceforth considered to be Muslim.
This event is all about Chrislam, which is one of the higher priorities of the NWO in their long march toward a one-world religion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_National_Cathedral
Episcopal Church — not the Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.
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