Buddhists, Christians, Jews, Muslims and people of other faiths pray and sing together in post-election solidarity Wednesday afternoon in New York City, even as the outcome of the hotly contested and polarizing vote was still in doubt.
Gathering outside a church in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, they stamp their feet on the pavement, sing gospel hymns, look skyward in prayer and chant words of hope to the beat of a drum.
“We are here together as we figure out how to make a just and loving democracy — no matter the outcome of this election,” says the Rev. Jacqui Lewis, pastor of Middle Collegiate Church in the East Village.
“We’ve been here before,” Lewis says outside the Judson Memorial Church near Washington Square Park.
Shira Kline, a director of worship for Lab/Shul, a Jewish community-based organization, leads a group in song during an interfaith gathering outside of the Judson Memorial Church near Washington Square Park in New York, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020. Muslims, Jews, Christians and Buddhists came together to show solidarity among faith communities as the country awaits the final result of the U.S. presidential election. (AP Photo/Emily Leshner)
“We know how to wait for change; we know how to wait with hope.”
It’s a budding interfaith coalition ritual first held four years ago after Donald Trump was elected president. This year it came against a backdrop of not only the election but also protests over racial injustice and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic that has new cases spiking all across the country.
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