{"id":22086,"date":"2025-11-02T00:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T00:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/22086\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T00:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T00:23:11","slug":"eries-spiritual-leaders-hold-prayer-walk-as-call-for-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/22086\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie\u2019s spiritual leaders hold prayer walk as call for justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A citywide prayer walk was issued to all spiritual leaders and people of faith in the Erie area, uniting the community for a call to justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Organizers said that this call to action went beyond denomination, race or title, inviting all believers to pray as one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Participants walked to key locations to pray for government, schools, family and neighborhoods, with a special focus on justice in the community due to current events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/waiting-and-wondering-prayer-vigil-held-for-marchello-woodard-110-days-after-shooting\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u2018Waiting and wondering\u2019 Prayer vigil held for Marchello Woodard 110 days after shooting;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\"> \u2018Waiting and wondering\u2019 Prayer vigil held for Marchello Woodard 110 days after shooting <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Elder Sharon Newell, a representative from Greater Calvary Gospel Church, said that prayer is a peaceful yet powerful way to advocate for what\u2019s right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Newell said, \u201cPrayer works. The prayers of the righteous of much according to the word of god, and prayer changes things, in civil rights, any movement, prayer works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The walk began on German Street near the location where Marchello Woodard was shot by a state parole agent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A citywide prayer walk was issued to all spiritual leaders and people of faith in the Erie area,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[14938,136,8805,138,137,14939,14936,14937,13085],"class_list":["post-22086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-elder-sharon-newell","tag-erie","tag-erie-area","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-greater-calvary-gospel-church","tag-prayer-walk","tag-prayer-works","tag-spiritual-leaders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}