A reader alerted me to this story from the Sacramento Bee.
Peace doves fly over Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament
By Stephen Magagnini
smagagnini@sacbee.comPublished: Sunday, Sep. 12, 2010 – 12:00
As 18 doves flew into the skies over the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament Saturday night, more than 100 diverse Sacramentans blessed copies of the Quran with roses of love. ["diverse Sacramentans" … I … I … umm… ]
Again and again they uttered the refrain, "Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me" at the entrance to the downtown church framed by white statues of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. A musician with a white guitar accompanied them.
Representatives of Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, B’hai, Mormon, Sikh, Vedic Druid and Muslim beliefs read scriptures from the great religious texts – including six verses from the Quran calling for all faiths to live in harmony.
Sacramento’s interfaith community organized the peace rally.
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