Group calls for unity in response to Rochester violence
By
Spectrum News Staff
Rochester
PUBLISHED 10:22 AM ET Jul. 09, 2021
PUBLISHED 10:22 AM EDT Jul. 09, 2021
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A community leader in Rochester is calling for fasting and prayer in response to Rochester's wave of violence. It comes from the head of United & Healing Through Hope of Monroe County.
"Sometimes we have to give up something to make progress on something else, and that's fasting and praying," said Clay Harris, the group's founder. "Maybe give up a meal or two a day throughout the summer. We're calling it the summer fast."
"The fasting and praying aspect of it is to show people they have to sacrifice," Harris added. "If they want to come out of this as a community, as a nation, we have to sacrifice too. And to show these would-be criminals, or criminal, there's a better way."