{"id":334,"date":"2011-01-10T19:40:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T19:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2011\/01\/prayers-for-rep-giffords-ariz-shooting-victims.html"},"modified":"2011-01-10T19:40:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T19:40:10","slug":"prayers-for-rep-giffords-ariz-shooting-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/01\/prayers-for-rep-giffords-ariz-shooting-victims.html","title":{"rendered":"Prayers for Rep. Giffords &amp; Ariz. Shooting Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some faith-related links about the Arizona shooting that claimed the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/01\/10\/132800409\/tucson-shooting-claims-victims-young-old\"> lives of six people <\/a>&#8212; including 63-year-old U.S. District Judge John Roll and 9-year-old Christina Green (in an oddly&nbsp;awful bookend, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/10\/us\/10green.html\">she had been born on 9\/11<\/a>) &#8212; and has left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords fighting for her life:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/in-tucsons-wake-we-pray-to-be-channel.html\">In Tuscon&#8217;s Wake, &#8216;We Pray to Be A Channel of Peace&#8217;<\/a> (Whispers in the Loggia)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/index.php?\/rnstext\/religious_leaders_call_for_calm_civility\/\">Religious Leaders Call for Calm, Civility <\/a>(Religion News Service)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jalees-rehman\/jared-loughner-the-sad-re_b_806338.html\">Jared Loughner and the Sad Relief of a&nbsp;Muslim <\/a>(Jalees Rehman for The Huffington Post)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/news\/article\/2011\/01\/09\/2742456\/giffords-staffer-gabe-zimmerman-killed-in-arizona-shooting#When:20:10:00Z\">Memo Notes Giffords&#8217; Judaism in Motives of Alleged Attacker <\/a>(JTA)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/catholic-community-grieves-arizona-shooting-victims\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+catholicnewsagency\/dailynews+(CNA+Daily+News)\">Catholic Community Grieves Arizona Shooting Victims<\/a> (Catholic News Agency)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/2011\/01\/ghosts-in-arizona-tragedy\/\">Ghosts in Arizona Tragedy <\/a>(GetReligion)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s also&nbsp;worth noting that tragedies sometimes bring out the best in people &#8212; for a recent example, check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/news\/world\/Muslims+protect+churches\/4078614\/story.html\">story about Egyptian Muslims stepping up to protect their Christian neighbors<\/a>&nbsp;in the wake of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2011\/01\/christians-in-egypt-muslim-world-fear-for-their-lives.html\">New Year&#8217;s Day attack on a Coptic Church<\/a>. And with the Arizona shooting, which prompted President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalcafe.com\/lead\/peace\/preaching_toward_tuscon_and_ag_1.html\">Obama to lead Americans in a moment of silence today<\/a> and&nbsp;will&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20110110\/ap_on_re_us\/us_congresswoman_shot_prayer_service\">be the focus of a bipartisan congressional prayer service Wednesday<\/a>,&nbsp;it seems that the increasingly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/news\/article\/2011\/01\/10\/2742466\/did-heated-rhetoric-play-role-in-shooting-of-giffords#When:19:54:00Z\">divisive, heated rhetoric&nbsp;from politicians like Sarah Palin <\/a>and other prominent talking heads<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsdaily.com\/2011\/01\/10\/fox-news-head-tells-hosts-shut-up-tone-it-down-after-giffords\/\"> may finally be&nbsp;toned down <\/a>to a healthier level. <\/p>\n<p>Or, <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2011\/01\/10\/more-harsh-rhetoric-please\/\">maybe not<\/a>? Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some faith-related links about the Arizona shooting that claimed the lives of six people &#8212; including 63-year-old U.S. District Judge John Roll and 9-year-old Christina Green (in an oddly&nbsp;awful bookend, she had been born on 9\/11) &#8212; and has left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords fighting for her life: In Tuscon&#8217;s Wake, &#8216;We Pray to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Prayers for Rep. Giffords &amp; Ariz. 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