WASHINGTON – Prayer and fasting might be the push needed to get Congress to agree on something.
Beginning Tuesday, a group of faith, immigrant rights and labor leaders holed up in a community tent set up on the National Mall.
Just blocks from the Capitol, they’re fasting and praying for Congress to pass immigration reform.
“Sometimes you can organize and march and struggle and work as hard as you can,” says Rev. Jim Wallis, president of Sojourners. “All you can do sometimes is pray for a miracle.”
A small group — just four on site — plans to keep up the fast. But leaders vow many more will join them in solidarity as their schedules allow.
The only end date provided: the passage of immigration reform in Congress.
At a news conference marking the launch on Tuesday, leaders acknowledged that they were aware many political watchers now believe it’s unlikely Congress will take up the polarizing and thorny subject before the end of the year.
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