At a service to pray for unity after the verdict, the (white) mayor and the (black) chief of police note with pride how calm the city has remained.
In Scotland, the prime minister, Tony Blair, the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Prince of Wales yesterday joined a church service to pray for the victims.
The three-day effort will conclude with a worship service to pray for America's immigrants on Sunday morning.
Waving around at the church, Álvarez said, "Every day, in my services, we pray for them here.
Private Sloan's father, the Rev. Tandy Sloan, the pastor at the Historic Greater Friends Missionary Church in Cleveland, had been leading almost nightly services to pray for the return of his son and Sergeant Dowdy.
During the short service, they prayed for the officers and staff who would be taking part in the execution.
To my relatives' credit, at our reunion's church service, they did pray for their enemies and prayed for their forgiveness (citing "for they know not what they do").
"During the service, Father asked us to pray for the new pope," Mr. Daly said.
In 1982, the then archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, infuriated Mrs Thatcher by striking a note of reconciliation at the Falklands war memorial service, asking the congregation to pray for families on both sides of the conflict who had lost loved ones.
A service has been held to pray for those affected by the events at Stafford Hospital and to reflect on the future.
