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Article: Churches respond with prayer, assistance.(World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks, 2001)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- September 21, 2001
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What do people do when the world is collapsing into a carpet of glass shards, bricks and metal? As a specter that some compared to Dante's Inferno, others to the Apocalypse, reigned across this city's financial district last week, many, perhaps most, turned to prayer.
While thousands went to church, many simply dropped to their knees on the sidewalks of New York, watching in disbelief as workers jumped from the fiery heat of the melting twin towers of the World Trade Center. An act of monumental terror whose victims might remain nameless and numberless forever brought New Yorkers and those around the nation to their knees on the day that many already call 911.
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