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Boston: Prayer event organized by former New England Patriot Ben Watson

(Worthy News) – Over 1,000 people attended a prayer event organized by former NFL New England Patriot Ben Watson this weekend, CBN News reported. Named “Boston Pray,” the event was a call to prayer to seek God for spiritual change in regard to racism.

The event was held Sunday in America’s oldest park, Boston Common, and was attended by participants from numerous Christian organizations and churches.

“During this season of tension and racial injustice we want to come together and begin to tackle intentional steps of extended racism and figure out solutions to injustices we’ve seen,” Jua Robinson, a participant from the Boston Collaborative Christian organization, told CBN.

Another participant, Sean Campbell from Arlington, told CBN: “It’s about being black in America. It’s about suffrage and pain and depending on my Savior, and it’s about being with these people who want to see change.”

“What is always needed is a spiritual change. That’s at the heart of everything,” Watson told WBZ-TV.  “Racism is sin,” he said. “The idea [for the event] is to get believers and non-believers to come together and pray and seek God’s face in terms of our next steps. When it comes to racism or issues of our day, we must enter into it with humility.”