National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC with a Stunning Performance by Andrea Bocelli - and Both Republicans and Democrats as Speakers Including the President of Rwanda and President Biden
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Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and First Lady Jeannette Kagame arrived in Washington DC and gave a speech:
“Reconciliation itself comes with a cost, which is why it is often so difficult to achieve. Hundreds of thousands of people deserved to go to jail for life, or even hanged, by any measure of justice. But we had to find a way to repair those people and make them part of society again. We abolished the death penalty. We therefore had to ask the survivors of genocide for the impossible, in order to restore our nation. To swallow their anger and bitterness. To live together again with those who they had watched murder their loved ones, as their own children flourished. I could not ask anything of the perpetrators.
Only the survivors had something left to give: Their forgiveness. It is the practice of reconciliation, in matters large and small, which creates and recreates healthy nations, and turns strangers and enemies into a family of citizens. That is Rwanda’s constant work, today and every day.” President Kagame | U.S. National Prayer Breakfast Gathering.
Only the survivors had something left to give: Their forgiveness. It is the practice of reconciliation, in matters large and small, which creates and recreates healthy nations, and turns strangers and enemies into a family of citizens. That is Rwanda’s constant work, today and every day.” President Kagame | U.S. National Prayer Breakfast Gathering.
The event took place, in Washington, DC, in Statuary Hall, a room in the U.S. Capitol that housed the House of Representatives before the Civil War, but after British troops burned the U.S. Capitol in 1814
President Joe Biden asked for prayers for a peaceful resolution of conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, and he called for Americans to be united in the face of challenges.
“Not only do we pray for peace, we are actively working for peace, security and dignity for the Israeli people and the Palestinian people,” Biden said, adding he continues to work for the return of hostages and an “enduring” peaceful, two-state resolution to the conflict.
Singer Andrea Bocelli sang a stunning “Our Father“ LISTEN below: Speaker Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York each read a prayer from the Old Testament, and Senate Chaplain Barry Black delivered the keynote speech.
The event’s 2024 honorary co-chairs were Reps. Frank Mrvan, D-Ind., and Tracey Mann, R-Kan.
President Joe Biden asked for prayers for a peaceful resolution of conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, and he called for Americans to be united in the face of challenges.
“Not only do we pray for peace, we are actively working for peace, security and dignity for the Israeli people and the Palestinian people,” Biden said, adding he continues to work for the return of hostages and an “enduring” peaceful, two-state resolution to the conflict.
Singer Andrea Bocelli sang a stunning “Our Father“ LISTEN below: Speaker Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York each read a prayer from the Old Testament, and Senate Chaplain Barry Black delivered the keynote speech.
The event’s 2024 honorary co-chairs were Reps. Frank Mrvan, D-Ind., and Tracey Mann, R-Kan.
On the events website;Tony Perkins, Family Research Council, co-founder of the National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance, said:
Our nation needs God. Now. Our Founding Fathers understood that our strength and unity were found in our commitment to Him and to His righteousness. We think America is strong, yet a long train of events reveals weakness on every front and historic level of division. We assume America will always be. It will not. 'Under God’ must become more than a part of our Pledge of Allegiance. 'In God we trust’ must be more than our national motto on our currency. America needs God. While some may refuse to accept that reality, we readily acknowledge that America truly does need God. It is for that reason that we come together at the National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance to repent of sin.
History of the Event
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5104803/andrea-bocelli# In April of 1935, nineteen business executives in Seattle, Washington, met together to face a critical situation in the life of their city. Looking for ways to deal with the tensions and fractures that often accompany public life, they turned to the 2,000- year-old story of Jesus of Nazareth – at a meal.
Their resolve grew to serve as agents of reconciliation in their personal lives and in their business communities. A concern for the poor and oppressed people of their city and beyond developed among them.
Over the months and years that followed, as they told others of how much this small group meant to them, other breakfast groups sprang up throughout the state of Washington, southward to San Francisco, eastward to Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston, and then in 1942 to Washington D.C. Here breakfast groups were founded in the United States Senate and House of Representatives.
Today, this simple idea of people meeting together for mutual encouragement and fellowship in order to find “the better way” has become the basis for small groups in over one hundred and eighty countries on every continent.
Our nation needs God. Now. Our Founding Fathers understood that our strength and unity were found in our commitment to Him and to His righteousness. We think America is strong, yet a long train of events reveals weakness on every front and historic level of division. We assume America will always be. It will not. 'Under God’ must become more than a part of our Pledge of Allegiance. 'In God we trust’ must be more than our national motto on our currency. America needs God. While some may refuse to accept that reality, we readily acknowledge that America truly does need God. It is for that reason that we come together at the National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance to repent of sin.
History of the Event
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5104803/andrea-bocelli# In April of 1935, nineteen business executives in Seattle, Washington, met together to face a critical situation in the life of their city. Looking for ways to deal with the tensions and fractures that often accompany public life, they turned to the 2,000- year-old story of Jesus of Nazareth – at a meal.
Their resolve grew to serve as agents of reconciliation in their personal lives and in their business communities. A concern for the poor and oppressed people of their city and beyond developed among them.
Over the months and years that followed, as they told others of how much this small group meant to them, other breakfast groups sprang up throughout the state of Washington, southward to San Francisco, eastward to Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston, and then in 1942 to Washington D.C. Here breakfast groups were founded in the United States Senate and House of Representatives.
Today, this simple idea of people meeting together for mutual encouragement and fellowship in order to find “the better way” has become the basis for small groups in over one hundred and eighty countries on every continent.
The purpose of the National Prayer Breakfast Foundation is to facilitate and execute the National Prayer Breakfast under the leadership of the US Congressional Co-Chairs. Founded in 1953, when President Dwight Eisenhower accepted the invitation to join Members of Congress to break bread together, our annual Breakfast is an opportunity for Members of Congress to pray collectively for our nation, the President of the United States, and other national and international leaders in the spirit of love and reconciliation as Jesus of Nazareth taught 2,000 years ago. Every president, regardless of party or religious persuasion, has joined since. All faiths are welcome.
PROGRAM SPEAKERS:
Tony Perkins
Family Research Council, co-founder of the National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance
Jim Garlow
Well Versed, co-founder of the National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance
Mike Johnson
Speaker of the House
Michele Bachmann
Dean of the Regent University Robertson School of Government
Jonathan Cahn
Rabbi
Jack Hibbs
Senior Pastor of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills and the President of Real Life ministry
Gary Hamrick
Senior Pastor of Cornerstone Chapel
Alma Rivera
Worship Leader
Criston Moore
Keyboardist
Doug McClure
Cellist
Jonathan Alexandre
Attorney and Singer
Tim Mercaldo
Pianist
Jonathan Valverde
Soloist
Byron Stinson
Evangelical Christian from Texas
Yitshak Mamo
Orthodox Jew from Israel
Sources: https://ngpr.org/ - https://npbfoundation.com/ - VOA
PROGRAM SPEAKERS:
Tony Perkins
Family Research Council, co-founder of the National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance
Jim Garlow
Well Versed, co-founder of the National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance
Mike Johnson
Speaker of the House
Michele Bachmann
Dean of the Regent University Robertson School of Government
Jonathan Cahn
Rabbi
Jack Hibbs
Senior Pastor of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills and the President of Real Life ministry
Gary Hamrick
Senior Pastor of Cornerstone Chapel
Alma Rivera
Worship Leader
Criston Moore
Keyboardist
Doug McClure
Cellist
Jonathan Alexandre
Attorney and Singer
Tim Mercaldo
Pianist
Jonathan Valverde
Soloist
Byron Stinson
Evangelical Christian from Texas
Yitshak Mamo
Orthodox Jew from Israel
Sources: https://ngpr.org/ - https://npbfoundation.com/ - VOA
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