Bernice King recalls day of MLK’s speech

Opening service Wednesday includes Jewish, Muslim, Catholic, Sikh, and Christian faith leaders

By AP 29 August 2013, 5:53 pm

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Martin Luther King, March on Washington (photo credit: US Government, WIkimedia Commons)

WASHINGTON — The Rev. Bernice King opened the celebration of her father’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech Wednesday with an interfaith service in Washington.

King said that her father, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., is often remembered as a freedom fighter for equal rights and human rights. But she said he was most importantly a man of faith. She says he was a prophet and “faith leader” and it was “the spirit of God that infused that movement.”

Bernice King said the faith community must continue to lead every movement for justice and equality.

The opening service Wednesday included Jewish, Muslim, Catholic, Sikh, and other Christian faith leaders celebrating King’s legacy.

Other speakers are the Very Rev. Gary Hall, dean of the National Cathedral; Catholic Archbishop Donald Wuerl of Washington; Rabbi Julie Schonfeld of the Rabbinical Assembly; Imam Mohamed Magid of the Islamic Society of North America and others.