Mayor Giuliani plans to hold an interfaith prayer service today to emphasize that religion should bring people together instead of tearing them apart.
“One of the points we want to make is that all religious leaders in the city, and all people who believe in God worship the same God, and have to respect each other in that way,” the mayor said, stressing he’d invited leaders every religious community – including Muslims.
Giuliani spoke after meeting with Edward Cardinal Egan, and former mayors Ed Koch and David Dinkins, whom he invited to join him at the prayer service.
It wasn’t immediately clear where the service will be held.
Giuliani also said he’s discussed holding a citywide memorial service, tentatively scheduled for a week from this Sunday.
Several emotional moments were shared by several hundred New Yorkers at an interfaith vigil last night at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church.
At one point, Rabbi Robald Sobel of Temple Emanu-el clasped his arms on the shoulder of Shaykh Abd’Allah Latif Ali, of the Imams Council of New York.
“Look and beseech thee and behold a rabbi and a sheikh, a Jew and a Muslim, standing together in a Christian Church.”