{"id":64,"date":"2010-04-12T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/prayer-services-honor-fallen-west-virginia-coal-miners.html"},"modified":"2010-04-12T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T11:00:00","slug":"prayer-services-honor-fallen-west-virginia-coal-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/prayer-services-honor-fallen-west-virginia-coal-miners.html","title":{"rendered":"Prayer Services Honor Fallen West Virginia Coal Miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/prayers-continue-as-hope-fades-for-west-virginia-miners.html\">Hopeful prayers&nbsp;<\/a>that some of the West Virginia coal miners would still be found alive turned into <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100411\/ap_on_re_us\/us_mine_explosion_the_long_wait_abridged\">sorrowful prayers <\/a>for their grieving families and coworkers over the weekend, at funerals and Sunday church services. A few of the stories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2010-04-11-miners-mourned_N.htm\">Some W. Va. miners&#8217; families say goodbye; others wait<\/a> (USA Today)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100411\/ap_on_re_us\/us_mine_explosion\">Churchgoers honor 29 dead miners &#8212; and profession <\/a>(Associated Press)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/11\/us\/11mourn.html\">West Virginia Coal Towns Mourn the Miners Lost <\/a>(New York Times)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><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><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopeful prayers&nbsp;that some of the West Virginia coal miners would still be found alive turned into sorrowful prayers for their grieving families and coworkers over the weekend, at funerals and Sunday church services. A few of the stories: Some W. Va. miners&#8217; families say goodbye; others wait (USA Today) Churchgoers honor 29 dead miners &#8212;&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-64","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>Prayer Services Honor Fallen West Virginia Coal Miners - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/prayer-services-honor-fallen-west-virginia-coal-miners.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Prayer Services Honor Fallen West Virginia Coal Miners - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hopeful prayers&nbsp;that some of the West Virginia coal miners would still be found alive turned into sorrowful prayers for their grieving families and coworkers over the weekend, at funerals and Sunday church services. 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