The Huffington Post website reports that more than 20,000 evangelical Christians -- mostly from Texas -- assembled at the Lone Star state's Reliant Stadium today (August 6, 2011) to attend a prayer rally spearheaded by Rick Perry, Texas Governor and a probable candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
Many of those attending sang with arms outstretched in prayer -- many of them weeping -- to the songs from Christian music groups on the stage.
"You didn't come here to listen to speeches," Luis Cataldo, a Kansas City, Missouri pastor, said in opening the event today. "You came here to pray. Jesus wants to hear you. Jesus wants to hear your voice."
In a June video announcing the event -- called "The Response USA" -- Gov. Perry said, "With the economy in trouble, communities in crisis, and people adrift in a sea of moral relativism, we need God's help. That's why I'm calling on Americans to pray and fast, like Jesus did and as God called the Israelites to do in the book of Joel."
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