The eve of Election Day brought a moment of silence to downtown Erie, as dozens gathered outside the Erie County Courthouse with one shared message: choosing peace over division.<\/p>\n
Organizers say the walk was about leading by example ahead of Election Day, encouraging people to show patience, understanding and nonviolence, even when political differences arise.<\/p>\n
With Election Day just hours away, dozens walked in silence, hoping their message would resonate louder than words.<\/p>\n
Sister Anne McCarthy says the message of peace and nonviolence is especially important for Erie, and that it goes beyond the sisters to include the entire community.<\/p>\n
The walk also served as an opportunity to show appreciation for election workers, many of whom volunteer their time to help ensure elections run smoothly.<\/p>\n
McCarthy says this isn’t the first time the sisters have taken a stand for peace ahead of an election. In 2020, they gathered here in prayer as ballots were being counted.<\/p>\n
She says the hope is that tonight’s message will continue beyond the walk, reminding people that respect and understanding matter, regardless of political differences or election results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The eve of Election Day brought a moment of silence to downtown Erie, as dozens gathered outside the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[524,5497,16249,136,138,137,130089,42609,5069,87857,7143],"class_list":["post-320009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-community","tag-election-day","tag-election-workers","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-nonviolence","tag-patience","tag-peace","tag-understanding","tag-walk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320009","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=320009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}