NOT INVITED, NONCHRISTIANS GATHER WORSHIPPERS PRAY FOR PUBLIC LEADERS.Byline: PATRICIA PATRICIA Practical Algorithm To Retrieve Information Coded In Alphanumeric PATRICIA Proving and Testability for Reliability Improvement of Complex Integrated Architectures PATRICIA PApilloma TRIal Cervical cancer In young Adults FARRELL AIDEM Staff Writer SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, -- Some bowed their heads, some murmured their own spontaneous prayers, and a few raised their arms in praise as Santa Clarita Christians gathered Thursday for the annual Mayor's Prayer Breakfast. At lunchtime, a diverse group of worshippers -- among them a Jew, a Buddhist and a pagan Pagan (pəgän`), ruined city, Mandalay div., central Myanmar, on the Ayeyarwady River. Covering an area c.40 sq mi (100 sq km), it is one of the great archaeological treasures of Southeast Asia and a holy place of pilgrimage. Founded c. -- gathered in front of City Hall in a counter prayer event organized by the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. Interfaith in·ter·faith adj. Of, relating to, or involving persons of different religious faiths: an interfaith marriage; an interfaith forum. Council. The goal of both privately sponsored events was to pray for government leaders from the White House to the staff at City Hall. For the interfaith council, a secondary goal -- and prayer -- was for next year's prayer gathering to involve all faiths. "I just want to say what a pleasure it is to be here -- and I am here," Mayor Marsha McLean told a breakfast crowd that erupted in applause. More than 50 people responded to an online survey urging McLean to boycott the event, organized by the Dunamis Group Christian businessmen's group, because it was viewed as exclusionary. Keynote speaker Ralph Drollinger Ralph Kim Drollinger (born April 20 1954, in La Mesa, California) is a retired American professional basketball player. He was a 7'2" (219 cm) 250 lb (114 kg) center and played collegiately at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). has made headlines for his comments critical of Catholicism, gays and young mothers in the Legislature who spend days away from home in Sacramento. In a brief speech, McLean thanked U.S. troops for protecting the nation's "freedom to worship as we please and believe in what we in our hearts want to believe." Mixing humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was with prayer, Drollinger, who lives in Newhall and runs a Sacramento-based ministry for state legislators, spoke of biblical references linking the importance of prayer and government. "A high priority of Christianity is to pray for leaders," he told the crowd, citing New Testament epistles EPISTLES, civil law. The name given to a species of rescript. Epistles were the answers given by the prince, when magistrates submitted to him a question of law. Vicle Rescripts. . No reference was made to a simmering debate about the interfaith council's plea to the Dunamis group to hold a larger event representing all faiths. The Rev. George McLeary, council president and minister at the Lutheran Church of Hope, said at his urging the the two groups had talked since summer about a joint prayer session, but the discussion fizzled. McLean said she backed the idea of a unity prayer breakfast, "but people are free to do as they wish." So the interfaith council held its own lunchtime service at which about a dozen speakers of various faiths used a megaphone to pray -- some drowned out Drowned Out is a 2002 documentary by Franny Armstrong about the controversial Sardar Sarovar Project. It closely follows a family that is unwilling to leave its village home as the water levels of the Narmada River, mostly because the government provides them no viable by the sounds of a passing truck. "We believe it is important that we do this together because we are strength together," prayed Rick Shafarman, who is Jewish. Garrett Myler cited a Hindu prayer with a line that summed up the day's messages. "May there be peace in our city," he said. pat.aidem@dailynews.com (661) 257-5251 CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- 2) Mojgan Tabrizi reads from the Bahai Faith's prayer book during a lunch-hour prayer in front of City Hall on Thursday. A diverse group of worshippers gathered in response to the Mayor's Prayer Breakfast, which only included Christians. At right, Santa Clarita Mayor Marsha McLean bows her head during the prayer breakfast at the Hyatt Hotel in Valencia. John Lazar/Staff Photographer |
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