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Washington's National Cathedral Hosts First Friday Muslim Prayers

November 14, 2014 08:30 PM
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A group of Muslims were invited to worship on Friday in the Washington National Cathedral. The hope was that an Islamic service in one of America's best-known churches would send a message of interfaith harmony to counter extremists' use of religion to justify hatred and strife. VOA Religion correspondent Jerome Socolovsky reports.

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