400 Years After Pilgrims Landed, Pastor Declares We Must Ask God To Forgive Our Land
b'By Richard Hunt\\nOn October 6, a special worldwide prayer event will be held at the site of the Pilgrim\\u2019s arrival at Plymouth Rock. \\n\\nCarter Conlon, Pastor at Times Square Church in New York City, believes the landing of the Mayflower and the fragile colony they founded in the face of many dangers \\u2013 all for the sake of freedom to believe in God, their way - was also the beginning of America, spiritually speaking. \\n\\nBut he says we have not honored God in so many ways. He\\u2019s calling for targeted prayer asking God to forgive our country for a number of specific things that grieve God, major among them, human slavery, which still has ramifications in what our country faces today. \\n\\n\\u201cGod gave us freedom and then we took a whole race of people and took away their freedom and made them slaves.\\u201d'