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Former Arizona State Senator, Carlyle Begay, representing the Navajo Nation offered the opening invocation at the National Prayer Service on Saturday, January 21. President Donald Trump attended the interfaith prayer service held at Washington’s National Cathedral.
Begay, a member of Trump’s inauguration committee, chanted a Navajo prayer and and offered blessings as he walked up the center aisle.
Begay is also Trump’s new White House advisor on Indian Affairs.
Representatives from Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Mormon, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist, and Bahá’í faiths participated.
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According to Christianity Today, other participants included:
● Mariann Edgar Budde, Bishop of Washington – Episcopal Church
● James B. Magness, Bishop Suffragan for Federal Ministries – Episcopal Church
● Randall Marshall Hollerith, Dean, Washington National Cathedral – Episcopal Church
● Cantor Mikhail Manevich – Washington Hebrew Congregation
● Rabbi Fred Raskind – Temple Bet Yam, St. Augustine Florida
● Alveda King – Pastoral associate, Priests for Life, Atlanta, Georgia
● Harry Jackson – Hope Christian Church, Beltsville, Maryland
● Narayanachar L. Dialakote – Sri Siva Vishnu Temple, Lanham, Maryland
● D. Todd Christofferson, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
● Imam Mohamed Magid – All Dulles Area Muslim Society Center, Sterling, Virginia
● Sajid Tarar – Baltimore, Maryland
● Greg Laurie – Harvest Christian Fellowship, Riverside, California
● Jack Graham – Prestonwood Baptist Church, Plano, Texas
● His Eminence Geron Archbishop Demetrios of America – Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
● Rosemarie Logan Duncan, Canon of Worship, Washington National Cathedral – Episcopal Church
● David Jeremiah – Shadow Mountain Community Church, El Cajon, California
● Ronnie Floyd – Cross Church, Springdale, Arkansas
● David Swanson – First Presbyterian Church, Orlando, Florida
● Jesse Singh – Chairman of the Board of Sikh Associations of Baltimore, Maryland
● Ian McIlraith – Soka Gakkai International – USA, Los Angeles, California
● Anthony Vance – National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of the United States
● Cissie Graham Lynch – Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Charlotte, North Carolina
● Ramiro Pena – Christ the King Baptist Church, Waco, Texas
● Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, D.C. – Roman Catholic Church
● Darrell Scott – New Spirit Revival Center, Cleveland Heights, Ohio