‘Our schools are a place where kids should be safe:’ faith leaders, community decry gun violence, call for peace in streets during downtown Chicago prayer walk
The Rev. Donovan Price prays amid passersby as the pastor, with other religious leaders and anti-violence advocates, march along Chicago's Michigan Avenue on a prayer walk to bring awareness to gun violence problems on May 28, 2022.
“We pray to increase the peace in our streets,” chanted a group of some 70 faith leaders and community members who crossed a bustling North Michigan Avenue on Saturday afternoon., is an annual Memorial Day weekend event for united prayer and peace across the city.They began around 1 p.m.
“We understand that our country is hurting,” Eaddy said. “We are seeing all sorts of gun violence, so we are taking a position today, as faith leaders, and decreeing peace in this district.” James Meeks, a pastor at Salem Baptist Church in the city’s Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side, said he and the group were “praying for a solution to the gun problem” in Chicago, Texas and wherever else it is happening.
“We need our senators in Washington, D.C. to come up with a comprehensive background check and gun legislation so that as we pray for peace, there will be no guns for people to shoot next Memorial Day,” Meeks said.
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